holding
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈhoʊldɪŋ/
:
posesión
- The country's $3.2 trillion worth of foreign currency holdings represents an imbalance between investment and consumption.
- constitutional holdings
- institutional holdings
- land holdings
Radical acceptance and knowing and holding your own reality.
- Radical acceptance and knowing and holding your own reality.
- So the looking and holding for three seconds is great, right?
Examples
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FirstSearch subscriptions also enable exposure of the library's holdings to the open web through WorldCat.org.
Academic text (2018) -
Their respective holdings can be compared and contrasted on a number of grounds.
Academic text (2009) -
In planning for systems to search our holdings, the first question should be, "Who is the user?"
Academic text (2014) -
Economic expansion into the West brought increased pressure on remaining Indian territorial holdings; however, especially in Indian Territory.
Academic text (2004) -
Now, there was little comfort in the novelty of leaving his holdings to others.
Fiction book (1997) -
On the other hand, some published bibliographies catalog the holdings of a particular collection.
Academic text (1992) -
Under pressure to stop the hemorrhaging of poorly run national holdings, governments are told to divest.
Academic text (1993) -
El Grupo Penal covers criminal law, with total holdings prior to 1958 estimated at 56,000 records.
Academic text (1999) -
Similarly, the IEEE digital library categorizes its holdings into directories per its own rules of cataloguing and categorization.
Academic text (2017) -
The museum's holdings include rare paintings and historical artifacts.
Synonyms
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2.0
The state of having or controlling something, especially property
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4.2
Keeping something so you still have it
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1.5
The care and protection of something that someone is responsible for
Keeping people or things so they are not lost
The state of owning things like land or buildings
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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9.1
Being the only person who must deal with a problem after others avoid it
Compounds
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4.1
A secure room in a police station where people wait briefly before going to court
- Specialized
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5.2
A company that owns or controls banks, usually to manage them
An enclosed area where farmers keep animals for a short time before moving them
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word holding comes from the old English verb hold, which means 'to keep' or 'to have in your hands'. Think of physically holding an object: a holding is the act of keeping or controlling something.