Sentence examples for holdback from inspiring English sources

This particular salesman looked completely sunk when he heard John say "holdback"; it was as if the fish had just climbed out of the barrel and pushed him in.

My husband John stopped one salesman cold when he asked him what the "holdback" was on the car we wanted.

The holdback should be for a pre-announced dollar amount, and the contract should specify that it will be lost if the company goes bankrupt or gets a government bailout.

But these provisions wouldn't likely have the transforming effect of a holdback.

IF our holdback measure had been in place before the last crisis, executives might have had serious second thoughts about giving a green light to mortgage-backed securities that would later go bust.

That the full Siri isn't available smacks more of a marketing department holdback than technical limitations.

Holdbacks used to be the super-secret fee that the car companies gave dealers when they completed a sale; now, online, you can find out exactly how much that is, and use the information to angle for a better price.

Creating a reserve account from so-called holdbacks is a common way to finance large multidistrict suits, and plaintiffs' lawyers who are not on the steering panels always hate them, said Samuel Issacharoff, an expert on complex litigation at New York University.

But now consumers have to think about the invoice price, rebates, incentives and holdbacks" -- money the manufacturers pay to dealers to help cover interest expenses.

The governor said new projections show state revenues $17 million below expectations, prompting the new 1percentt "holdbacks".

To get an approximation of the dealership's true cost for a vehicle, one should also take into account two pots of money that carmakers pay to dealers: sales incentives and holdbacks.