<def-root>An <fen>Agent</fen> decides temporarily not to perform a <fen>Desirable_action</fen> or not to interact with a <fen>Salient_entity</fen>.
<ex><fex name="Agent">I</fex> have actually <t>held off</t> <fex name="Desirable_action">on buying some movies by WB</fex> <fex name="Explanation">because of those damned cases</fex>.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Agent">We</fex> <t>held off</t> <fex name="Desirable_action">on reporting this</fex> <fex name="Explanation">because, by all accounts, the young Oscar-nominee has NOT been offered the role</fex>.</ex>
<ex>This meant <t>waiting</t> <fex name="Desirable_action">with dinner</fex> until late. <fex name="Agent">CNI</fex></ex>
<ex><fex name="Agent">I</fex> <t>waited</t> <fex name="Desirable_action">with going to him</fex> and in retrospect think that that was a mistake.</ex></def-root>
<def-root> The <fen>Agent</fen> decides not to engage in a <fen>Desirable_action</fen> for a while or not to interact with a <fen>Salient_entity</fen>. <ex>Instead, <fex name="Agent">he</fex> <t>held off</t> on a public announcement of his decision for more than a year.</ex></def-root >
<def-root><fen>Desirable_action</fen> identifies the event or activity in which the <fen>Agent</fen> does not engage for a while.
<ex>The board also <t>waited</t> <fex name="Des">with the appointment of seven members to the planning and zoning commission</fex> until a policy is set regarding requirements.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Degree</fen> to which the temporary forgoing occurs.
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<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Manner</fen> in which the temporary forgoing occurs.</def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Means</fen> by which the temporary forgoing occurs.
<ex>Portland General Electric, for example, has <t>held off</t> on retail rate increases <fex name="Means">by
selling some excess power at high wholesale prices</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Place</fen> where the temporary forgoing occurs.
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<def-root>This FE identifies the interval of <fen>Time</fen> during which the the forgoing occurs.
<ex>Saskatchewan teachers are not a happy lot as they had voted for a strike in June
<fex name="Time">then</fex> <t>held off</t> on it to give negotiations a chance during the summer.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Purpose</fen> for which the temporary forgoing occurs.
<ex>We <t>held off</t> on taking him out <fex name="Purp">so as to not disrupt the plans for the invasion of Iraq</fex>?</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Explanation</fen> denotes a proposition from which the <fen>Agent</fen>'s decision to temporarily forgo a <fen>Desirable_action</fen> or to not interact with a <fen>Salient_entity</fen> logically follows.
<ex>Yes yes I saw them, but I <t>waited</t> with a reply for sometime <fex name="exp">because I wanted first to show them to my guildmates</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Circumstances</fen> under which the <fen>Agent</fen> does not engage in the <fen>Desirable_action</fen>.
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<def-root>An entity that evokes a contextually inferrable <fen>Desirable_action</fen> that the <fen>Agent</fen> is temporarily forgoing.
<ex>I ordered the blackberry cobbler with ice cream for dessert and <t>held off</t> <fex name="sal">on another pint</fex> as the rain kept coming down.</ex></def-root>
<def-root><fen>Duration</fen> denotes the length of time from the beginning of the <fen>Agent</fen>'s decision to forgo a <fen>Desirable_action</fen> to the point in time when the <fen>Agent</fen> engages in the action.
<ex>The United Arab Emirates (UAE) <t>waited</t> with the deal <fex name="dur">for nearly five years</fex> because of a dispute with the Pentagon about the avionics.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The point in time, defined either as a clock time or in terms of an event that takes place, at which the <fen>Agent</fen> engages in the <fen>Desirable_action</fen> or interacts with the <fen>Salient_entity</fen>.
<ex>We <t>waited</t> on technology development <fex name="End_point">until we had made instructional plans</fex>.</ex></def-root>
Forgoing
Change_event_time
Waiting
FN: temporarily forgo
FN: temporarily refrain from