HOLDING COMPANY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A company with controlling shares in other companies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("holding company" is a kind of...):

company (an institution created to conduct business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "holding company"):

bank holding company (a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks)

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