单词	hold-up
释义	hold-upˈhold-up noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS At Trenton there was one last hold-up. Hakkar admitted he took part in the hold-up, but denied having fired a gun. It came about one day that he had no money to play, and he committed a hold-up in a store. It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars. People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups. The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters. There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatora situation in which someone or something is delayed► delay when someone or something is delayed: · Any delay in the production process is costly to a company.long delay: · The strike is causing long delays at the airportthree months'/several weeks' etc delay: · After three months' delay, work finally began on the new building.delay in doing something: · There have been a lot of complaints about delays in issuing passports. ► hold-up/holdup a delay, especially one caused by an unexpected problem, that interrupts a journey or a piece of work: · An accident on the London-Brighton road has caused a major hold-up.· There's been a hold-up with the builders, so the new office won't be ready for several months. ► bottleneck a delay in one stage of a process that stops making progress and makes the whole process take longer: · There's always going to be a bottleneck because only two people review all the applications.· If we don't hire more people in production we're going to have a huge bottleneck in a few months. when someone steals something► burglary when someone enters a house or other building illegally and steals things: · Call the police -- there's been a burglary.· Most burglaries occur when a house or apartment is empty. ► robbery when someone steals money or other things from a bank, shop etc, especially by using threats or violence: · I took part in my first robbery when I was only thirteen years old.· In the first nine months of this year there were 9611 street robberies involving violence.robbery of: · Police claim to have found the gun used in this morning's robbery of a downtown convenience store.bank robbery: · The police are investigating a series of bank robberies. ► break-in when someone breaks a door or window in order to enter a place and steal things: · There was a break-in at the college last night -- they took all the computers. ► hold-up also stick-up American informal when someone goes into a bank or shop with a gun and demands money: · A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank. ► theft formal when something is stolen: · If your passport has been stolen, report the theft to your nearest embassy immediately.theft of: · Security has been tightened since the theft of a $150,000 oil painting.car/bicycle etc thefts: · Police believe they have found the man responsible for a series of car thefts in the past year. ► mugging a violent attack on someone in the street in order to rob them: · There have been a number of muggings outside downtown hotels recently. ► raid when someone goes into a bank or shop while it is open, and steals money or other things using threats or violence: · The police accused the woman of planning a huge armed bank raid in Scotland.raid on: · Detectives managed to catch the gunman who had taken three hostages in a raid on a jeweller's shop.carry out a raid: · Police have released a photo of a man they believe carried out a raid on a supermarket. ► job informal a crime that involves stealing: · Her boyfriend was put in prison after a bank job (=theft from a bank).inside job (=done by someone within the organization): · The police are convinced it was an inside job. 1a situation that stops something from happening or making progress SYN  delay:  traffic hold-ups on the highway Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time.2informal an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon SYN  robbery:  a bank hold-up → hold up at hold1
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