Usually means: Owns controlling shares in companies.
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  1. holding company: Merriam-Webster
  2. holding company: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. holding company: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. holding company: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. holding-company, holding company: Wordnik
  7. holding company: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. holding company: Wiktionary
  9. holding company: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. holding company: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. holding company: Dictionary.com
  12. Holding Company, Holding company: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. holding company: FreeDictionary.org
  15. holding company: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  17. holding company: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. holding company: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. holding company: Law.com Dictionary
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  7. Holding company: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Holding Company: Harvey Financial
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  10. Holding Company: Investopedia
  11. Holding company: Energy Dictionary
  12. Holding Company: Legal dictionary
  13. holding company: Financial dictionary
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  16. Holding Company: WashingtonPost.com: Business
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Definitions from Wiktionary (holding company)

▸ noun:  (business) A company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies, as opposed to producing goods or offering services.

Similar:
joint-stock company, listed company, bancorporation, stock company, stockholder, shipping company, crossholding, investment company, common stock, company, more...

Opposite:
subsidiary, divestiture, spin-off, disinvestment

Types:
investment company, mutual fund, closed-end fund, more...

Phrases:
Bank holding company, multibank holding company, financial holding company, JAB Holding Company, Guaranty Trust Holding Company PLC, more...

Adjectives:
mutual, shareholding, secondary, alt, publicly held, long, interested, capital, money purchase, municipal, small-cap

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Similar:
joint-stock company, listed company, bancorporation, stock company, stockholder, shipping company, crossholding, investment company, common stock, company, more...

Opposite:
subsidiary, divestiture, spin-off, disinvestment

Types:
investment company, mutual fund, closed-end fund, more...

Phrases:
Bank holding company, multibank holding company, financial holding company, JAB Holding Company, Guaranty Trust Holding Company PLC, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Kingdom Holding Company, more...

Adjectives:
mutual, shareholding, secondary, alt, publicly held, long, interested, capital, money purchase, municipal, small-cap



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