Definitions

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  • verb transitive To detain; hold up; hold back; retain; withhold; limit.

Etymologies

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From Middle English forholden, forh(e)alden, from Old English forhealdan ("to forsake, fall away from, rebel against, let go, defile, pollute, withhold, misuse, abuse"), equivalent to for- +‎ hold. Cognate with Dutch verhouden ("to relate"), Low German vorholden ("to detain"), German verhalten ("to control, restrain"), Danish forholde ("to relate"), Norwegian forholde ("to deal").

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Examples

  • Det er pressens rett å informere om det som skjer i samfunnet og avdekke kritikkverdige forhold.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Torill 2009

  • Det er adskillig vanskeligere å sette seg inn i sosiale, økonomiske og politiske forhold som spillene blir produsert innenfor.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Torill 2009

  • Lange dager, lav jobbtrygghet og dårlig arbeidsmiljø er ikke uvanlige forhold for ansatte i bransjen.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Torill 2009

  • Perhaps, like many strenuous writers, he underestimated the violence of his own language; perhaps, living so long at a distance from Norway and catching but faintly the reverberations of its political turmoil, he did not realize how sensitive the native patriot must be to any chaff of "de lokale forhold."

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The play is all concerned with de lokale forhold, and there is an overwhelming air of Little Pedlington about the intrigue.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The play is all concerned with de lokale forhold, and there is an overwhelming air of Little Pedlington about the intrigue.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • There is a cant phrase minted in the course of it, de lokale forhold, which we may awkwardly translate as "the local conditions" or "situation."

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Perhaps, like many strenuous writers, he underestimated the violence of his own language; perhaps, living so long at a distance from Norway and catching but faintly the reverberations of its political turmoil, he did not realize how sensitive the native patriot must be to any chaff of "de lokale forhold."

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • There is a cant phrase minted in the course of it, de lokale forhold, which we may awkwardly translate as "the local conditions" or "situation."

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • På en måte kan det vel være positivt med litt gnisninger også, ved at usikre sjeler kanskje får en smule hjelp til å definere sitt område i forhold til andre studenters.

    Informasjon og journalistikk Torill 2005

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