Meaning of holding In English

• 0 something that you own such as shares in a company or buildings, or land that you rent and farm:

  • To ensure security the investment fund has holdings in many companies.

• 1 In football, if a midfield player has a holding role, their main job is to help the defence rather than attack an opponent's goal:

  • Without a holding midfielder, the two centre backs can be left exposed.

• 2 assets such as property, shares, or cash that a government, company, or person owns:

  • holding in sth The government announced that it would replace its gold reserves with holdings in dollars, euros and yen.

  • Foreign central banks might reduce their holdings of American Treasury bonds.

  • cash/stock/property, etc. holdings

• 3 the amount of a company's shares that a person or organization owns:

  • holding in sth He is considering selling his 28% holding in the company.

  • increase/raise/build up a holding The Chairman bought a further 80,000 shares, increasing his holding to 20.3%.

  • reduce/cut a holding The sale is part of a plan by the Dutch state to reduce its holding in the former government-controlled group.

• 4 used in the names of some holding companies:

  • TEC Holdings has been in existence since 2007.