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HOLDING COMPANY
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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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