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What does holdout mean?

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Noun
  1. One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out.
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Designated the team's franchise player, he could be a training camp holdout for the second straight year.
So if all the studios but one want to give the union a better offer, that one holdout can add weeks or months to an impasse.
And if it hadn't been for just one holdout on Lyle's jury, Lyle would have been convicted of second-degree murder.
Under those facts, would your unwillingness to accept my offer evidence that you are just being a strategic holdout?
He has no hope of getting anything out of this holdout, so he basically is saying that he'd rather not play football than play for the Chargers.
But politics notwithstanding, Hollywood, in particular, is often portrayed as the last great liberal holdout in California.

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