Betekenis van hold sb/sth back In het Nederlands

• 0 to stop someone or something developing or doing as well as they should:

  • She felt that having children would hold her back.

• 1 If you hold someone or something back, you stop him, her, or it from coming or moving forward:

  • Sandbags will hold the flood waters back for a while.

• 2 to prevent someone or something from changing, moving, or developing:

  • She hadn't got the promotion she wanted, and she accused her boss of holding her back.

  • What's holding back that company is a failure to consider the Internet as a market rather than as competition.