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hold down

verb

to restrain or control
informal.
to manage to retain or keep possession of
to hold down two jobs at once

Other insurers are trying different ways to hold down costs.

Time will tell if Sikorsky can hold down costs and deliver the helicopter on time.

Her disagreeable nature made it nearly impossible for her to hold down a job.

If we can hold down costs like this going forward, our budget problems will ease quite a bit.

No, maybe, that's not quite fair: governments in Western Europe did use price controls to hold down the cost of health care.

The hold-down clamps had hardly gripped it when a figure sprang out from an opened door.

Mackenzie flared up at the raking-over Tim gave him, and turned his face away to hold down a hot reply.

Flopping over on his stomach, endeavoring to hold down the last remnants of his innards, he begged to be left alone.

There was a rising panic that started deep inside of him, that took concentrated effort to hold down.

The man who trains today will hold down the big-money Radio job of the future.

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