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holding company

noun

, Finance.
  1. a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations ( parent company ).


holding company

noun

  1. a company with controlling shareholdings in one or more other companies


holding company

  1. A company that controls other companies.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of holding company1

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

The agency holding companies have chosen divergent paths over how to leverage and incorporate data, which in the last five or so years has muscled its way to the forefront of most media decisions.

From Digiday

One advertiser finalized a deal last week to advertise during the Inauguration and “their deal is packed with contingencies in the event that there is a problem,” according to a media buyer for a holding company agency.

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There aren’t many accounts that were switched to other holding companies.

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Distributions from the holding companies have varied, Johnson said, and Rechnitz has used some of his share to acquire new facilities, invest in operations and donate to charity.

The Hangzhou-based firm now needs to move forward with setting up a separate financial holding company to ensure it has sufficient capital, and protect personal private data, the central bank said.

From Fortune

As the former CEO of Apollo Group, a large education holding company, Edelstein is helping Rwanda with its higher education.

Missouri-based holding company for operating companies Bick Group Inc., Bick Properties Inc., and SEALCO LLC.

Or renounce your status as a bank holding company, as Goldman Sachs seems primed to do.

Meanwhile, Ford and de Sole saw their own relationship to their corporate holding company fray, leading to their exit in 2004.

The holding company has a sinister perfection in its mode of giving to a minority of capital the control over a majority.

Company B got a position on the other bank where they could shoot right into the party which was holding Company A in check.

Mr. Marston, you know, is secretary of the Consolidated Holding Company.

The holding company was a machine whereby capital could control property several times its bulk.

There was here no single holding company as in the case of the Standard Oil Trust.

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