holding company
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈhoʊldɪŋ ˈkʌmpəni/
- Specialized
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sociedad holding
- As a holding company, it owns a majority of the voting shares in multiple corporations.
- bank holding company
- holding company model
- subsidiary of the holding company
The structure of a holding company is not bad.
- The structure of a holding company is not bad.
- Always holding company sits at the top.
- Let's have holding companies that operate in multiple states so we can kind of hide the ball from regulators.
- They point out that most closed end holding companies trade close to their net asset value or at a discount to their Navs.
Examples
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The third organizational form corresponds to the holding company model.
Academic text (1998) -
The Fed has expressed its preference for a regulation requiring the holding company model.
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Well, it was through the holding company.
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I'll give you a board seat on the holding company.
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Most of our sponsors are controlled by one of his secret holding companies.
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A TPS deal involves three parties: the holding company, the trust, and the investors.
Academic text (2018) -
Finally, in the holding company model, a holding company owns both the bank and the securities subsidiary.
Academic text (1998) -
According to this, they're a holding company... for corporations with offshore accounts in Europe and South America.
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Local business monopolies ensued, as did holding companies that maintained a controlling interest in a number of electric utilities.
Academic text (2005) -
The Volcker rule prohibits large bank holding companies from engaging in proprietary trading.
Academic text (2016)
How Controlling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a company that owns enough voting stock in other companies' is directly derivable from combining 'holding' (property/shares/assets owned) with 'company' (an organization): a company that holds assets or shares in others. This noun–noun compound follows regular compositional patterns and has direct equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will generally understand it.
Etymology
Holding company comes from the image of a big company holding smaller companies like a person holding boxes. Because this 'holding' means owning enough shares to control them, the phrase now means a company that owns and runs other companies.