on to

1. see be on to.

Example Sentences

When few participants are trading, market makers must hold on to shares for longer.

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They explore the remarkable story of the Garland Fund—a small 1920s foundation that bankrolled early work by A. Philip Randolph, and others who would go on to shape the civil rights and labor movements.

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Also, some of the returns for these products are eaten away by what Haugen calls hidden costs — including the fees that investment banks charge for supplying the swaps that many of these funds rely on to achieve their targeted daily return.

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Unlike her husband, she went on to get a university education, studying art and textiles.

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The precocious girls soon cotton on to the headmistress’s ruse and parry her appeals to dish on Miss Brodie.

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