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What are hold-ups?

What are hold-ups? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of hold-up
  2. (Britain, colloquial, plural only) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
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Now-infamous stories of student visa hold-ups and hassles have been rehashed in countless newspapers across the globe.
But a number of those schemes are being delayed by hold-ups in the approval process.
Among other problems they cause serious hold-ups for the emergency services.
According to a council spokesman the delays stretched throughout the one-way system, with particularly bad hold-ups in Buckhold Road.
It was not known whether there is a link between the raid and the armed hold-ups.
Many burglaries, hold-ups and car thefts are also never properly investigated.

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