hold for

hold for (someone)

1. To protect or monitor something for someone else, often in their absence. I'm going to the bathroom—can you hold my bags for me?
2. To keep something for someone so that they can access, retrieve, or purchase it at a later date. No, I'm on my way to the library—they're holding a book for me.
See also: hold
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hold something for someone

 
1. to keep something safe for someone. I will holdyour money for you. Do you want me to hold your wallet for you while you swim?
2. [for a merchant] to set something aside for a purchaser who will pay for it and take delivery at a later date. I will hold it for you until you can pay for it. We can hold it for you right here and give it to you when you have the money.
See also: hold
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (you've) got to get up pretty early in the morning to (do something)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
  • a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
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After all, you're in the hold for a reason, often to stay there a while until ATC figures out what to do with you next, or allowing you to gather information and make a decision in response to a controller's query of "What are your intentions?"
Hold me, thrill me: if you're doing them right, holds are anything but thrilling. but they can be useful at times
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had to use, or hold for use, such assets for the requisite period of time in its trade or business before it could exclude from FPHCI the gain from the deemed sale of H&C's assets.
"Check-the-box" election avoided FPHCI taint
Keeping hands on outer thighs, elbows up, shoulders down, hold for sixty seconds.
Abominable abdominals
This exception for obligations that are collected within 30 days from the time incurred, however, is only available if the CFC does not hold for more than 60 days obligations that would qualify as U.S.
Applicability of Notice 88-108 after OBRA 1993
Often, when holding in terminal airspace for approach sequencing, ATC will clear the lowest aircraft in the hold for an approach and then descend the next-highest one, etc.
Dissecting the hold: despite currency requirements, for-real holds are too rare for us to stay proficient. Understanding them is easy if we break them down to the basics
1031 (a) (1) provides that a taxpayer does not recognize gain or loss on an exchange of property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment, if he exchanged the property solely for like-kind property that he intends to hold for the same reasons.
IRS issues guidance on use of accommodation parties in deferred like-kind exchanges