0 a person, organization, or country that continues to do something, despite other people trying to force them not to: --
1 a person, organization, or country that continues to refuse to accept something that others have already accepted, despite other people trying to persuade them to: --
This was the first time since his rookie holdout season that he did not start every game he played in.
He ended the holdout by agreeing to a contract worth $17,500.
Some holdout devices are extremely simple and require moderate or advanced manipulative skill to be used properly.
Quite a few individual churches and monasteries refused to accept them, the last holdout finally accepting them during the early 10th century.
Ond builds an antenna to resist the advance of the nants until the house is the last of the holdouts to persist on physical earth.
She is the lone holdout in the jury that tries him, leading to a mistrial.
He was a contract holdout most of training camp, eventually agreeing to a $22 million contract.
Also in 1972, the last holdout among daytime network programs converted to color, resulting in the first completely all-color network season.
