Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term
vorhalten
Was wäre hier eine passende Übersetzung für DE? Danke!
(I know there are loads of translations in the kudoz glossary, but I'm still not sure what fits here)
| 4 +1 | keep / hold |
Mary Worby
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| 5 | retain |
Heike Schwarz
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| 3 | on hold |
Roshni Sahgal
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Jan 5, 2009 10:31: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "Computers (general)" to "Internet, e-Commerce"
Jan 5, 2009 10:32: Steffen Walter changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Proposed translations
United Kingdom
Friendly, reliable and accurate!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
keep / hold
An item marked as sticky [...] is kept / held for the period defined ...
I'm trying to work out whether you could use 'stuck' to fit in with sticky but I don't think it works!
Germany
High quality at reasonable rate
Native in: English 
, Hindi 
, Marathi
Works in: German to English, English to Marathi, English to German, and 26 more.
on hold
Germany
trilingual, certified, fast
Native in: English (Variants: British, South African, UK, US) , German (Variants: Germany, Bavarian, Namibian, Swabian)
Works in: German to English, Afrikaans to English
retain
The sticky bit was introduced in the Fifth Edition of Unix in 1974 for use with pure executable files. When set, it instructed the operating system to retain the text segment of the program in swap space after the process exited.
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