holding
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Definitions ofholding
- To grasp or grip.
Example: "Hold the pencil like this."
- To contain or store.
Example: "This package holds six bottles."
- (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- To win one's own service game.
- To take place, to occur.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
Example: "Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month."
- To derive right or title.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
Example: "A martini, please, and hold the olive."
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- A determination of law made by a court.
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- That which holds, binds, or influences.
- Logic; consistency.
- The burden or chorus of a song.
- (in texts about Russia) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг).
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