# holding
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: hōldʹ-ĭng, IPA: /ˈhəʊldɪŋ/
** (General Australian) IPA: [ˈhəʉɫdɪŋ]
** (UK) IPA: [ˈhəʊɫdɪŋ]
** (US) IPA: [ˈhoʊɫdɪŋ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
* Hyphenation: hold‧ing

### Noun

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: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 (date written), 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

* (determination): finding

#### Descendants

* → Polish: holding

#### Translations
### Verb

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

* bag of holding
* be left holding the baby
* blanch holding
* blench holding
* bondholding
* bondholding
* breath-holding
* cardholding
* cardholding
* cross holding
* crossholding
* cross-holding
* crossholding
* 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
* holding time
* 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

* hodling

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

holding m or f (plural holdings)
* holding company

### Further reading

* “holding”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English holding.

### Noun

holding f (invariable)
* holding company

## Polish
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from holding.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxɔl.diŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔldiŋk
* Syllabification: hol‧ding

### Noun

holding m inan (related adjective holdingowy)
* holding company (company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies, as opposed to producing goods or offering services)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* holding in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* holding in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* holding in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English holding.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁow.d͡ʒĩ/ [ˈhoʊ̯.d͡ʒĩ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁow.d͡ʒĩ/ [ˈhoʊ̯.d͡ʒĩ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁow.d͡ʒĩ/ [ˈχoʊ̯.d͡ʒĩ]

### Noun

holding m (invariable)
* holding company

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French holding, from English holding.

### Noun

holding n (plural holdinguri)
* holding company

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Noun

holding m (plural holdings)
* holding company

### Further reading

* “holding”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Etymology

From English holding.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɔl.diɲɟ/

### Noun

holding (definite accusative holdingi, plural holdingler)
* holding company