"holding company" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: holding companies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} holding company (plural holding companies)
  1. (business) A company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies, as opposed to producing goods or offering services. Wikipedia link: holding company Categories (topical): Business Derived forms: bank holding company, public utility holding company Translations (company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies): شَرِكَة قَابِضَة (šarika qābiḍa) [feminine] (Arabic), 控股公司 (kònggǔ gōngsī) (Chinese Mandarin), holdingselskab [neuter] (Danish), holdingo (Esperanto), holding-yhtiö (Finnish), hallintayhtiö (Finnish), société faîtière [feminine] (French), société mère [feminine] (French), holding [feminine, masculine] (French), Holding-Gesellschaft [feminine] (German), cuideachta sealbhaíochta [feminine] (Irish), holding [feminine] (Italian), 持株会社 (Japanese), 持ち株会社 (mochikabu-gaisha) (alt: もちかぶがいしゃ) (Japanese), 지주회사 (jijuhoesa) (alt: 持株會社) (Korean), holding [masculine] (Polish), holding [neuter] (Romanian), хо́лдинговая компа́ния (xóldingovaja kompánija) [feminine] (Russian), хо́лдинг (xólding) [masculine] (Russian), матери́нская компа́ния (materínskaja kompánija) [feminine] (Russian), förvaltningsbolag [neuter] (Swedish), holdingbolag [neuter] (Swedish), holding (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "de",
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          "code": "ga",
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          "code": "it",
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          "word": "지주회사"
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      "roman": "šarika qābiḍa",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "شَرِكَة قَابِضَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kònggǔ gōngsī",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "控股公司"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "holdingo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "holding-yhtiö"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "hallintayhtiö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "société faîtière"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "holding"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Holding-Gesellschaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cuideachta sealbhaíochta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "holding"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "持株会社"
    },
    {
      "alt": "もちかぶがいしゃ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mochikabu-gaisha",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "持ち株会社"
    },
    {
      "alt": "持株會社",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jijuhoesa",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "지주회사"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "holding"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "holding"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xóldingovaja kompánija",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "хо́лдинговая компа́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xólding",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хо́лдинг"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "materínskaja kompánija",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "матери́нская компа́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "förvaltningsbolag"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "holdingbolag"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies",
      "word": "holding"
    }
  ],
  "word": "holding company"
}

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