holding
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
holding (plural holdings)
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- 1980, Joseph D. Dwyer, Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, page 9:
- Although this survey lists only a small number of representative materials in the Hoover Library's Baltic Collection, a comprehensive view of the library's holdings can be gained from the Hoover Institution's card catalog or its printed equivalent
- 2009, The Economist, Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures[1]:
- Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
- 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete, page 378:
- The defender at third position is supposed to keep the partner informed of his holdings in that suit.
- A determination of law made by a court.
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 3:
- Take again
From this my hand, as holding of the Pope
Your sovereign greatness and authority.
- (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], line 27:
- This has no holding,
To swear by him whom I protest to love
That I will work against him.
- (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], line 109:
- Make battery to our ears with the loud music;
The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing.
The holding every man shall beat as loud
As his strong sides can volley.
- (obsolete, rare) That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power.
- 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, London: J. Dodsley, page 104:
- This is one of the principal holdings of that destructive system, which has endeavoured to unhinge all the virtuous, honourable, and useful connexions in the kingdom.
- (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
Coordinate terms edit
- (determination): finding
Descendants edit
- → Polish: holding
Translations edit
something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds
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tenure; farm or other estate held of another
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Verb edit
holding
- present participle and gerund of hold
- They were caught holding hands in the dark.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
Derived terms edit
- bag of holding
- be left holding the baby
- blanch holding
- blench holding
- bondholding
- bondholding
- breath-holding
- cardholding
- cardholding
- crossholding
- crossholding
- cross-holding
- cross holding
- deedholding
- deedholding
- fiefholding
- fiefholding
- freeholding
- freeholding
- fundholding
- fundholding
- handholding
- holding action
- holding cell
- holding charge
- holding company
- holding deal
- holding midfielder
- holding note
- holding pattern
- holding tank
- holding the ball
- holding the cards
- holding the man
- inholding
- jobholding
- jobholding
- keyholding
- keyholding
- landholding
- landholding
- leaseholding
- leaseholding
- leave someone holding the baby
- leave someone holding the bag
- lienholding
- lienholding
- officeholding
- officeholding
- onholding
- onholding
- passholding
- passholding
- patentholding
- patentholding
- permitholding
- permitholding
- pewholding
- pewholding
- placeholding
- placeholding
- plotholding
- plotholding
- policyholding
- policyholding
- powerholding
- powerholding
- recordholding
- recordholding
- rightsholding
- rightsholding
- roadholding
- roadholding
- runholding
- runholding
- section 104 holding
- shareholding
- shareholding
- shipholding
- shipholding
- slaveholding
- slaveholding
- small holding
- stakeholding
- stakeholding
- stallholding
- stallholding
- steinholding
- steinholding
- stockholding
- stockholding
- titleholding
- titleholding
- toolholding
- toolholding
- unitholding
- unitholding
- wardholding
- wardholding
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
holding m or f (plural holdings)
Further reading edit
- “holding”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English holding.
Noun edit
holding f (invariable)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English holding.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
holding m inan
Declension edit
Declension of holding
singular | plural | |
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nominative | holding | holdingi |
genitive | holdingu | holdingów |
dative | holdingowi | holdingom |
accusative | holding | holdingi |
instrumental | holdingiem | holdingami |
locative | holdingu | holdingach |
vocative | holdingu | holdingi |
Derived terms edit
adjective
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English holding.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
holding m (invariable)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French holding, from English holding.
Noun edit
holding n (plural holdinguri)
Declension edit
Declension of holding
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) holding | holdingul | (niște) holdinguri | holdingurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) holding | holdingului | (unor) holdinguri | holdingurilor |
vocative | holdingule | holdingurilor |
Spanish edit
Noun edit
holding m (plural holdings)
Further reading edit
- “holding”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
holding (definite accusative holdingi, plural holdingler)