Synonyms:
withholding
Meaning: the act of deducting from an employee's salary
Synonyms:
withholding_tax, withholding
Meaning: income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer
Synonyms:
withholding
Meaning: the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control; "I resented his withholding permission"; "there were allegations of the withholding of evidence"
Usage examples
Under these altered conditions it has become a question whether we are justified in withholding from the world an account of a phenomenon which we believe to be of unparalleled interest, merely because our private life is involved, or because we are afraid of ridicule and doubt being cast upon our statements.
But as the same constitution which gives the commons a power to check the king by withholding the supplies, gives afterwards the king a power to check the commons, by empowering him to reject their other bills; it again supposes that the king is wiser than those whom it has already supposed to be wiser than him.