"holdup" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun, meaning a robbery or an act of delaying something, or as a verb, meaning to delay or obstruct something. Example sentence: The holdup at the bank resulted in a small fortune being stolen.
That is, at best, a technicality.As for Mr Graves, the holdup in his case rests on another technicality: the state comptroller's office, which controls the money, noted that Mr Graves had not actually been declared innocent.
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The reason there aren't very many of them right now is not because of some red-tape holdup; it's because America's shale-gas bonanza only started to come online in 2008-9.
In September 1924, caught in the foiled holdup of a Mooresville grocer, he served much of the next decade (1924 33) in Indiana state prisons.
Reed was killed not long after his sensational holdup of the Austin San Antonio stage in 1874, and Belle Shirley was named an accessory, although not a participant, in the indictment for that crime.
If little or no urine appears, it may be because the kidneys are forming little urine (oliguria) or none (anuria); or it may represent a holdup in the bladder or urethra affecting the outflow from both kidneys.
But he was active behind the scenes, helping to plot a spectacular holdup in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) on June 25 June 122, Old Style), 1907, in order to "expropriate" funds for the party.
The aim is to maintain a constant flow of production, which involves a balance in personnel in the various departments to avoid a holdup in any stage.
and gathering them at the Fidelity Republic Bank just as two armed robbers enter, the pilot jumps ahead fifty-two hours, when a hostage drama that followed the botched holdup ends with cops storming in and bullets flying.
When Senator Thune calls you back, ask him why on earth he chose not to run for President — he's over thirty-five, and born in this country, and what's the holdup?
ANNALS OF CRIME about the holdup and murder of Perry Jenkins gambling place, a small basement at 309 W. 20th Street.
