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To manage to keep something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- Desperate to hold onto power, Pervez Musharraf has discarded Pakistan's constitutional framework and declared a state of emergency.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, onto.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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