All put on hold synonyms

verb put on hold

• deadend — Alternative spelling of dead-end.
• hold the phone — not hang up
• drop it — stop talking about it
• hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
• break it up — stop fighting
• hold on — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• bivouac — A bivouac is a temporary camp made by soldiers or mountain climbers.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• intermitted — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• lie in wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
• bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
• lay over — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
• bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
• lie low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
• defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
• hold over — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• bide one's time — to wait patiently for an opportunity
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• intermitting — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• mothball — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
• look for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• lasted — to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
• cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
• lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• bunking — a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
• dead-end — terminating in a dead end: a dead-end street.
• choke off — To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
• look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
• lay low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
• nest — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
• mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
• inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
• nested — (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.