onholding

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adjective

Continuous; perpetual; lasting.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveonholding (comparative more onholding, superlative most onholding)

comparative more onholding · superlative most onholding

  1. Continuous; perpetual; lasting.

    Since Friday morning police officers of the city of Seoul, Republic of Korea, are experiencing an onholding increase of witnesses of a yet unidentified, possibly hazardous biological phenomenon.

    2009, http://crystalgyro.wordpress.com/,New life in Eastern Asia?
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    In the work of a waggon-builder or coach-maker, if a man made a whole wheel, the shaving of spokes would come in its turn with other kinds of work that would call the workman into sundry postures, with sundry muscles in action ; whereas, when by a more exact division of labour, one man is confined only to the shaving of spokes, he may have a daily onholding pressure on the stomach that may soon affect his health.

    1859, William Barnes, Views of labour and gold

Origin

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APA

onholding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onholding

MLA

“onholding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onholding. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “onholding,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onholding.

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