holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊldə/
ipa: /ˈhoʊɫdɚ/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: holders
Etymology: From hold + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.
glosses: A thing that holds.
examples: text: He's been an account holder with us since 2004.
text: In 2012, there were 28 living holders of the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
text: Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.
ref: 1881, George Saintsbury, “Dryden”, in English Men of Letters:
text: How many of these gafolgelders by contract were to be found on Saxon manors, whether on the lord’s demesne or holding virgates in the open fields, libere tenentes or free holders of villain holdings, as I have elsewhere stated we cannot tell, but if we may take the experience of the interval between the Domesday survey and the hundred rolls as any guide to the natural multiplication of libere tenentes on the lord’s demesne, the class may have become numerous on many, and perhaps mostly on royal manors, without giving ground, I think, for any inference in favour of the original freedom of the Saxon village community.
ref: 1892 July, “Villainage in England”, in The English Historical Review, volume VII, number XXVII, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; New York, N.Y.: […], page 460:
text: A request for a nonreviewable ruling must be submitted by an issuer or holder.
ref: 1996, United States. Internal Revenue Service, Internal Revenue Bulletin, page 47:
glosses: A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The defending champion.
Derived terms: accountholder
agricultural holder
baitholder
beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
billholder
block holder
bondholder
bookholder
book-holder
boroughholder
bottleholder
boulder holder
boxholder
bus-holder
candleholder
candle holder
cardholder
chairholder
cigarette holder
coholder
copyholder
cryoholder
cup holder
cupholder
debentureholder
debenture holder
debtholder
deedholder
dwarf-holder
farm holder
fiefholder
film badge holder
footholder
fundholder
gasholder
grudgeholder
handholder
harp holder
haunch holder
high-holder
holder-forth
holder-on
holdership
holder-up
inkholder
innholder
jobholder
keyholder
key holder
lampholder
landholder
leadholder
leaseholder
lienholder
loanholder
lotholder
mapholder
mopholder
neckholder
needle holder
noteholder
office holder
officeholder
office-holder
over-the-shoulder boulder holder
passholder
patentholder
pencil holder
penholder
permitholder
pewholder
placeholder
place holder
planholder
plateholder
plotholder
plume-holder
plume holder
policyholder
policy holder
postholder
potholder
pot holder
powerholder
receiptholder
recordholder
record-holder
rein holder
rightholder
rightsholder
runholder
rush holder
seatholder
shareholder
shipholder
sightholder
signholder
siteholder
slaveholder
sleeve-holder
sleeve holder
sleeveholder
stakeholder
stallholder
stockholder
stubbie holder
stubby holder
tagholder
ticket-holder
titleholder
toolholder
typeholder
type holder
unitholder
wardholder
warrantholder
wharfholder