"on hold" meaning in All languages combined

See on hold on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [English]

Audio: En-au-on hold.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} on hold, {{en-PP}} on hold
  1. (idiomatic) Delayed; postponed; suspended. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-on_hold-en-prep_phrase-EJzgIJP2
  2. Waiting on a telephone call. Categories (topical): Telephony Translations (waiting on a telephone call): in der Warteschleife gesteckt (German), in der Leitung gewartet (German), auf das Abheben gewartet (German)
    Sense id: en-on_hold-en-prep_phrase-WUO76ruH Disambiguation of Telephony: 5 92 0 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 73 18 0 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 18 66 16 0 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 13 70 17 0 Disambiguation of 'waiting on a telephone call': 1 94 3 2
  3. On reserve; being held for someone. Synonyms: on-hold (english: directly before a noun only) Related terms: hold on Translations (on reserve): varattuna (Finnish), varalla (Finnish), reserviert (German), félretéve (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-on_hold-en-prep_phrase-8pDRQH4s Disambiguation of 'on reserve': 0 7 93 0
  4. Pertaining to a telephone hold state. Translations (pertaining to a telephone hold state): in de wachtstand (Dutch), Warteschleifen- (German)
    Sense id: en-on_hold-en-prep_phrase--aCbwep4 Disambiguation of 'pertaining to a telephone hold state': 0 3 1 96

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