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Withheld vs Withholding - What's the difference?

withheld | withholding |

As verbs the difference between withheld and withholding

is that withheld is past tense of withhold while withholding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective withheld

is that one has withheld; kept from the possession or knowledge of another.

As a noun withholding is

the deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.

withheld

English

Verb

(head)
  • (withhold)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That one has withheld; kept from the possession or knowledge of another.
    • His withheld hand stared down at my weakly outstretched one.
    The names originally withheld from the report, have been leaked.
    The former employee returned to demand his withheld check.

    Synonyms

    * (kept from knowledge ): confidential, secret

    withholding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia withholding) (en-noun)
  • The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
  • The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government.