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Upholding vs Withholding - What's the difference?

upholding | withholding |

As verbs the difference between upholding and withholding

is that upholding is while withholding is .

As nouns the difference between upholding and withholding

is that upholding is the act by which something is upheld while withholding is the deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.

upholding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is upheld.
  • * 2010 , Tom S. Clark, The Limits of Judicial Independence

    • Anagrams

    * English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    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.