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Noun: withholder  widh'hówl-du(r) or with'hówl-du(r)
  1. A person who refrains from granting
    "a withholder of payments"
     
  2. A person who restrains, checks or holds back
    "The withholder of information was eventually compelled to testify"

Derived forms: withholders

Type of: actor, controller, doer, restrainer, worker

Antonym: granter