The word 'withhold' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea of holding or not giving something to someone, or not allowing them to do something. Example sentence: The teacher had to withhold the test results until everyone in the class had finished the exam.
We should withhold bilateral visits by ministers while the foreshadowed executions continue or for the rest of the year," McCarthy wrote for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
He has expressed recurrently his belief that the American people are entitled to give or withhold that informed consent.
McCain and Republican senator Lindsey Graham have threatened to withhold US funds to the UN should the White House not intervene on the issue of Palestinian statehood.
Northern Ireland's health minister has won the right to withhold the legal reasons why he continues to ban gay men from donating blood in the province.
But the prime minister reserved his harshest language for Miliband's plan to withhold a planned coalition cut in corporation tax on large businesses, citing the punitive impact the policy would have on a company such as Jaguar Land Rover, which sells cars around the world.
The Andrews government suggests it has other infrastructure plans, but the Abbott government is threatening to withhold the $3bn it had allocated for the East West Link.
Russian and Chinese authorities declined to renew or threatened to withhold visas for prominent foreign correspondents, but the new Egyptian government went a step further by detaining a number of Al Jazeera staff on charges of supporting terrorism.
Unions have gone all-out to block the deal, warning that they might withhold endorsements from any lawmaker who votes for fast track.
A reporter with Bolton News, Dale Haslam, had appealed against a decision by the information commissioner to withhold the names of the two local politicians.
O'Brien worked on ministers' special advisers, exploiting an awareness that Osborne had power to give or withhold government jobs.
Union membership and the freedom to withhold labour are basic rights, but as a tactic to elicit change in policy the threat of industrial action is a blunt instrument.
