Definition of "holdout" []

• One that withholds agreement or consent upon which progress is contingent. (noun)

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• "The salad bar is still there on the right, the lone holdout from the City Market Cafe, which still rents part of the location."
• "The Weekly Standard's John McCormack focused on a CBS report about threatening phone calls the holdout anti-abortion Michigan Democrat got after the president persuaded him to vote for the legislation."
• "Calvin Johnson, miss more than a couple days since Bryan Westbrook was a long-term holdout in"