A withholder of payments. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to withhold payment. From Dictionary.com.
This sounds so mundane, but it is very big for me since I am generally a withholder. From Wordnik.com. [Mama Gena’s Marriage Manual] Reference
As Janet describes the incident, she is the innocent seeker of information and the teacher is the malicious withholder. From Wordnik.com. [The Unmotivated Child] Reference
He is a power of evil, guardian of hoards, the greedy withholder of good things from men; and the slaying of a dragon is the crowning achievement of heroes -- of Siegmund, of. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
I didn't want to sound like a dunce or a withholder of crucial information, but I had to tell him, for my sake as well as his own, when I realized what her statements implied. From Wordnik.com. [Nine Princes In Amber]
He wants you to die, you smotherer of pleasure, you denier of life, you withholder of joy. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Otherwise Gower Woodseer's dash at the quintessential young man of wealth would prompt to the carrying of it further, and telling how the tethered flutterer above a 'devil on his back on a river' was beginning to pull if not drag his withholder and teaser. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
He wasn’t so much a liar as a withholder of pertinent information. From Wordnik.com. [Forget You] Reference
A superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses, nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Paths] Reference
A child, the very withholder of which seems to struggle with good-tempered laughter, partly at one's dulness in not being able to guess, partly at the pleasure in store. From Wordnik.com. [Joyous Gard] Reference
Mr. Jobs has been the great withholder. From Wordnik.com. [How Apple Foot-Dragged to Victory] Reference
This was the container and withholder, (such is the primitive sense of the Hebrew word rendered darkness (Gen. 1. 2. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
(b) the withholder of consent to a request for the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly. "file a suit to declare that the Behrang, Changkat Jering and Jelapang state seats vacant. From Wordnik.com. [Poetic Justice] Reference
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