0 to remain strong or successful: --
1 a delay: --
Come on, let's go. What's the hold-up?
2 an occasion when someone steals from someone else using violence or the threat of violence: --
3 stockings (= light coverings for the legs and feet) that hold themselves up by a piece of sticky material or elastic at the top --
4 to continue to operate or be able to do things, esp. after being repaired or being ill: --
Plasterers were always the cause of the hold-up.
I need not emphasise the vital importance of seeing that there is no hold-up by reason of delays in the acquisition of land.
Several changes in the schedules of accommodation and finally a tender well above the cost limits have been the main causes for the hold-up.
The hold-up ratio, defined as the ratio of the input oil-water ratio t o the in situ oil-water ratio, is thus an important parameter for core-annular if flow.
If they do not, the credible threat of a supplier is one concerning liquidation, not simply exit, and can again raise the potential for hold-up problems.
This is extremely relevant to public contracting as many, particularly high profile contracts, have a political and/or practical timetable attached to them and are, therefore, vulnerable to hold-up problems.
Such organizations allow all activities in the firm to be controlled more accurately through the minimization of hold-up problems.
The hold-up ratio proves to be an important parameter in determining the operating water fraction.
