holding company

noun

, Finance.

1. a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations ( parent company ).

holding company

noun

1. a company with controlling shareholdings in one or more other companies

holding company

1. A company that controls other companies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of holding company¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

As the former CEO of Apollo Group, a large education holding company, Edelstein is helping Rwanda with its higher education.

From The Daily Beast

Missouri-based holding company for operating companies Bick Group Inc., Bick Properties Inc., and SEALCO LLC.

From The Daily Beast

Or renounce your status as a bank holding company, as Goldman Sachs seems primed to do.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, Ford and de Sole saw their own relationship to their corporate holding company fray, leading to their exit in 2004.

From The Daily Beast

The holding company has a sinister perfection in its mode of giving to a minority of capital the control over a majority.

From Project Gutenberg

Company B got a position on the other bank where they could shoot right into the party which was holding Company A in check.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Marston, you know, is secretary of the Consolidated Holding Company.

From Project Gutenberg

The holding company was a machine whereby capital could control property several times its bulk.

From Project Gutenberg

There was here no single holding company as in the case of the Standard Oil Trust.

From Project Gutenberg

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