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holding (root: hold)

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Noun
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hold=ing

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun holding has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

holdingn. 
  •  The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which holds, binds, or influences.  Burke.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The burden or chorus of a song.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
Holding note (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

holding, n.
1 a land held by lease (cf. SMALLHOLDING). b the tenure of land.
2 stocks, property, etc. held.

Idiom
holding company a company created to hold the shares of other companies, which it then controls. holding operation a manoeuvre designed to maintain the status quo.

THESAURUS

holding

absolute interest, absorbing, adverse possession, alodium, arresting, attractive, bearing, benefit, blessed with, block, board lot, bolstering, bottling up, bracing, burdened, burgage, buttressing, carrying, claim, clinging, colony, common, compelling, compulsive, consuming, contingent interest, corking up, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, driving, dummy share, easement, enchanting, enfeoffed, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, equitable interest, equity, estate, even lot, fascinating, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, fractional lot, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, full lot, gavelkind, grasping, gripping, having, having and holding, having title to, hold, holding in, holdings, hypnotic, impelling, in possession of, inhibition, interest, keeping, knight service, landed, landholding, landowning, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, limitation, locking in, lot, magnetic, maintaining, maintenance, mandate, master of, mesmeric, mesmerizing, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, occupancy, occupation, occupying, odd lot, original title, owning, part, percentage, possessed of, possessing, possession, preference share, prehension, preoccupancy, preoccupation, preoccupying, prepossession, prescription, preservation, propertied, property, property rights, property-owning, propping, proprietary rights, repression, retainment, retention, retentive, retentiveness, retentivity, right, right of entry, round lot, seisin, seized of, settlement, share, shoring, socage, spellbinding, squatting, stake, stockholding, stockholdings, strict settlement, sublease, supporting, supportive, suppression, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, tenacious, tenacity, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, tenured, title, trust, underlease, undertenancy, upholding, use, usucapion, vested interest, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, worth

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Possession

N possession, seizin, seisin, ownership, occupancy, hold, holding, tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency, villenage, villeinage, socage, chivalry, knight service, exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention, prepossession, preoccupancy, nine points of the law, corner, usucaption, future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority, primogeniture, ultimogeniture, futures contract, warrant, put, call, option, right of first refusal, bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession, possessing, worth, possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of, usucapient, endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with, possessed, on hand, by one, in hand, in store, in stock, in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession, at one's command, at one's disposal, one's own, unsold, unshared, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, meum et tuum, tuum est.

Property

N property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum, ownership, proprietorship, lordship, seignority, empire, interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding, tenure, vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest, use, trust, benefit, legal estate, equitable estate, seizin, seisin, absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold, fee tail, fee simple, estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail, estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general, limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate, estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie, remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility, dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony, legacy, Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds, assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances, wealth, money, what one is worth, what one will cut up for, estate and effects, landed property, landed real estate property, realty, land, lands, tenements, hereditaments, corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments, acres, ground, acquest, messuage, toft, territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence, manor, honor, domain, demesne, farm, plantation, hacienda, allodium, fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency, arado, merestead, ranch, free lease-holds, copy lease-holds, folkland, chattels real, fixtures, plant, heirloom, easement, right of common, right of user, personal property, personal estate, personal effects, personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables, stock, stock in trade, things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia, equipage, parcels, appurtenances, impedimenta, luggage, baggage, bag and baggage, pelf, cargo, lading, rent roll, income, maul and wedges, patent, copyright, chose in action, credit, debt, one's own, landed, predial, manorial, allodial, free lease-hold, copy lease-hold, feudal, feodal, to one's credit, to one's account, to the good, to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assign.

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