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HOLDING COMPANY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does holding company mean?
• HOLDING COMPANY (noun)
The noun HOLDING COMPANY has 1 sense:
1. a company with controlling shares in other companies
Familiarity information: HOLDING COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A company with controlling shares in other companies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("holding company" is a kind of...):
company (an institution created to conduct business)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "holding company"):
bank holding company (a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks)
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