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holdup

noun as in problem, delay

noun as in robbing

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Deliveries are also delayed due to a holdup in supplies of General Electric's F-404 engines for the jets.

From BBC

Netanyahu is expected to use the speech Wednesday to demand more aid and more weapons, without delay or holdups.

So far, the only holdup has been finding young workers to train in a very old industrial craft.

As recently as eight days ago the State Department was still arguing that the weapons holdup was a technical matter.

The holdup revolves around the Research Advisory Panel of California, established decades ago to vet studies involving cannabis, hallucinogens and treatments for “abuse of controlled substances.”

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