to deliberately withhold essential knowledge or skills as strategic insurance (typically to maintain leverage, avoid being replaced, or preserve authority in hierarchical relationships)
1.to leave sth for later2.to postpone (work, a decision etc)
leave of absence without pay
1.to keep a copy2.copy kept for archiving3.to put aside a portion (of a money sum)
to leave oneself a way out
Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)
1.to leave some leeway2.to allow for the unpredictable
1.to keep stationed (of troops)2.to remain as a garrison
private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
1.to stay2.to stop over3.to break one's journey
to withdraw (money) and retain it
to stay for a long period
to set aside for; to keep as
1.to bequeath (to later generations)2.a legacy
1.a departing gift2.a souvenir on leaving3.a poem to mark one's departure
Lingering Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu, one of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
1.to ask a guest to stay2.to detain a guest
to retain a portion (of profits etc)
1.to remain in existence2.to retain
1.(old) to study abroad2.(sports) to train abroad
1.to leave a message2.to leave some empty space in a work of art3.to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
1.to keep a seed stock2.seed held back for planting
1.to leave blank space in a document2.to leave some time free
1.to leave in place; to set aside (for further use); to retain2.to detain (a suspect or offender)3.(medicine) indwelling
to leave the door unlocked for sb
1.to make sth difficult2.to create obstacles
1.remainder2.fractional part (after the decimal point)3.unfinished
Ilyushin, Russian plane maker
reservation (for an ethnic minority)
1.Silurian system (geology)2.see 志留纪
Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago)
stationary front (meteorology)
Liuba, a county in Hanzhong City 汉中市[hàn zhōng shì], Shaanxi
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
1.to leave loose ends2.to leave matters unresolved
to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
hilly land allotted for private use
Wei Liucheng (1946-), fifth governor of Hainan
Gongliu, a county in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
1.repertory2.repertoire3.repertory item
1.to detain as criminal2.criminal detention
1.on one's deathbed2.at the point of death