holding company

American  

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 ).

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holding company British  

noun

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

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holding company Cultural  

1. A company that controls other companies.

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Etymology

Origin of holding company

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

The country’s highest court said Friday that a lower appeals court had made an error in ruling that the family’s namesake Bollore holding company exerted de facto control over Vivendi.

From The Wall Street Journal

Citi accepts that its calculations provide “a very rough proxy for OpenAI” because SVF2 also includes other private companies, and it also does not take any holding company discount into consideration.

From MarketWatch

Lufthansa, which already owns a host of carriers and is Europe's biggest airline group by revenue, said it had submitted a bid to the state holding company that owns TAP.

From Barron's

Third-quarter revenue at the healthcare holding company came in at $1.34 billion, topping the $1.11 billion analysts were anticipating, even though earnings of 32 cents a share missed the 45 cents Wall Street had projected.

From Barron's

The German airline group said Thursday that it sent a letter expressing its interest to Parpublica, the Portuguese holding company that officially owns TAP.

From The Wall Street Journal

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