Usually means: Possession or ownership of something.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word holding:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. holding: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. holding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. holding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. holding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. holding: Vocabulary.com
  6. Holding, holding: Wordnik
  7. holding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Holding, holding: Wiktionary
  9. holding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. holding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. holding: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. holding: Dictionary.com
  13. holding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Holding (American football), Holding (aeronautics), Holding (aviation), Holding (law), Holding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Holding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. holding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. holding: Rhymezone
  18. Holding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. holding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. holding: Free Dictionary
  21. holding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. holding: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. holding: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. holding: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. holding: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. holding: Legal dictionary
  6. holding: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Holding (aviation), holding: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. holding: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. holding: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. holding: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Holding: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Holding: Chess Dictionary
  2. Holding: Skydiving Glossary
  3. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  5. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See hold as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
noun:  A determination of law made by a court.
noun:  A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
noun:  (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
noun:  (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power.
noun:  (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
noun:  A surname.

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