# 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
* breath-holding
* cardholding
* cross holding
* crossholding
* cross-holding
* crossholding
* deedholding
* fiefholding
* freeholding
* 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
* keyholding
* landholding
* leaseholding
* leave someone holding the baby
* leave someone holding the bag
* lienholding
* officeholding
* onholding
* passholding
* patentholding
* permitholding
* pewholding
* placeholding
* plotholding
* policyholding
* powerholding
* recordholding
* rightsholding
* roadholding
* runholding
* section 104 holding
* shareholding
* shipholding
* slaveholding
* small holding
* stakeholding
* stallholding
* steinholding
* stockholding
* titleholding
* toolholding
* unitholding
* 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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxoldin/ [ˈxol̪.d̪ĩn]
* Rhymes: -oldin
* Syllabification: hol‧ding

### 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

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
holding
holdingler
definite accusative
holdingi
holdingleri
dative
holdinge
holdinglere
locative
holdingde
holdinglerde
ablative
holdingden
holdinglerden
genitive
holdingin
holdinglerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
holdingim
holdinglerim
2nd singular
holdingin
holdinglerin
3rd singular
holdingi
holdingleri
1st plural
holdingimiz
holdinglerimiz
2nd plural
holdinginiz
holdingleriniz
3rd plural
holdingleri
holdingleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
holdingimi
holdinglerimi
2nd singular
holdingini
holdinglerini
3rd singular
holdingini
holdinglerini
1st plural
holdingimizi
holdinglerimizi
2nd plural
holdinginizi
holdinglerinizi
3rd plural
holdinglerini
holdinglerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
holdingime
holdinglerime
2nd singular
holdingine
holdinglerine
3rd singular
holdingine
holdinglerine
1st plural
holdingimize
holdinglerimize
2nd plural
holdinginize
holdinglerinize
3rd plural
holdinglerine
holdinglerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
holdingimde
holdinglerimde
2nd singular
holdinginde
holdinglerinde
3rd singular
holdinginde
holdinglerinde
1st plural
holdingimizde
holdinglerimizde
2nd plural
holdinginizde
holdinglerinizde
3rd plural
holdinglerinde
holdinglerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
holdingimden
holdinglerimden
2nd singular
holdinginden
holdinglerinden
3rd singular
holdinginden
holdinglerinden
1st plural
holdingimizden
holdinglerimizden
2nd plural
holdinginizden
holdinglerinizden
3rd plural
holdinglerinden
holdinglerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
holdingimin
holdinglerimin
2nd singular
holdinginin
holdinglerinin
3rd singular
holdinginin
holdinglerinin
1st plural
holdingimizin
holdinglerimizin
2nd plural
holdinginizin
holdinglerinizin
3rd plural
holdinglerinin
holdinglerinin :