Crossword clues for holdout
holdout
The Collaborative International Dictionary
holdout \holdout\ n.
a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms after most other participants have signed an agreement; as, their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks.
a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal.
the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later.
Wiktionary
n. One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who hold out.
WordNet
n. a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms; "their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks"
a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal
the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later
Wikipedia
In gambling jargon, a holdout is any of numerous accessories used by cheats to help them "hold-out" a card (or cards) during a card game. Some holdout devices are extremely simple and require moderate or advanced manipulative skill to be used properly. On the other hand, there is a group of holdout devices which are mechanical in nature, therefore they fall under a separate category of holdout machines. Even if those machines are complex mechanical apparatuses, they still require a good level of skill from the cheat's part, to be used well.
Most of the holdout devices used today were invented in the 19th century. One of the most successful of these devices was used by P. J. Kepplinger around 1888. The Kepplinger holdout device and many others were described in detail by the magician John Nevil Maskelyne.
The main purpose of any holdout device is to temporarily hold a card out of the game, so that the cheat may retrieve it at some later convenient time. Only one card out of play can tremendously increase the odds of winning. The cheat not only knows the identity of this card (an advantage that no other player has) and knows that it couldn't possibly be dealt to any other player, but this card also serves as if an extra card was dealt to the cheat on every round. In effect, this is as if the cheat was dealt a bonus card, so that he may decide which combination of cards he likes best and finally discard the unwanted one, only to possibly use it on the next round (or at least switch it for a better one).
A holdout is a piece of property that did not become part of a larger real estate development because the owner either refused to sell or wanted more than the developer would pay. There are many examples of hold-outs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Japan, and other countries.
Holdout or Hold Out may refer to:
- Holdout (architecture), a property that did not become part of a larger development
- A holdout (seller) in real estate transactions who refuses to negotiate with buyers who have a bid that is lower than the initial asking price
- Holdout (gambling), a device used to cheat in gambling
- Holdout problem in finance concerning bond redemption
- Japanese holdout, a World War II soldier in the Pacific who continued to fight after Japan surrendered
- "Hold Out" (Tom Robinson song), a 1979 song by the Tom Robinson Band on the album TRB Two
- Hold Out, a 1980 album by Jackson Browne
- "Hold Out" (song), a 2006 song by Matthew Saunoa
Usage examples of "holdout".
Combines scythe circumference swatches, close their noose around holdout corn.
Vaughan Williams dies just after the debut of his final symphony, a last holdout against Boulez and Berio.
It was his embroidered, endangered bastion, his last holdout in an overrun world: the amber oil lamp in the second-story corner above the antique shop, abiding in tragic coziness.
They thought her safely in confinement, and all the time she had this simple holdout spell, courtesy of her visit to Devale and a sweaty night.
The last holdout had given up the fight and the survivors were coming out from behind the shattered defenses.
In his mind the SS man was back in a cellar beneath the Lubyanka, strangling a NKVD holdout he had stalked through the labyrinth and found in a hidden room with a half-eaten German corpse.
Deck, reeling backwards with his hands sunk in his ruined guts, and went for the holdout below the bar at a speed that was truly semi-divine.
He and Lucas were the last two holdouts, as they liked to refer to themselves.
I would keep on haggling, and if necessary I too would meet stubborn holdouts on the challenge lawn.
The town gets its paved streets, the holdouts pay their share, and their paws stay unmuddy too.
Then he had gone trudging through the countryside, organizing the small groups of holdouts who hid in the woods and the edges of the mountains.
There were a few holdouts, of course, men like Sir John who had given Stephen their respect but still refused to swear fealty to him, but their number was dwindling on a daily basis.
The same supermajority would be required for any amendment of the original Act, and there were enough holdouts to put final approval very much up for grabs.
The deck was marked to indicate face cards and he had two aces in a sleeve holdout, so there was little to worry about.
The holdouts kept him in the cellar whose second story had taken a couple of direct hits from a landcruiser's cannon.