Holding Time

Holding time may refer to:

  • Holding (aviation), used to delay aircraft already in flight
  • Holding time (attachment therapy), where a child is laid upon to produce a cathartic response
  • Call duration

Famous quotes containing the words holding and/or time:

    “Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)