withholding
/wɪθˈhəʊldɪŋ/ noun C1- The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
- The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government.
Plural withholdings
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My motive for withholding it from the coroner’s inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
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