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Definition of Holding company
1. Noun. A company with controlling shares in other companies.
Definition of Holding company
1. Noun. (business) A company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies as opposed to producing goods and services. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holding Company
Literary usage of Holding company
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"571, holding company liable for tor- tious act of agent; ... 290, holding company
liable for articles received by baggage master contrary to orders; ..."
2. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"THE holding company' In the case of certain systems the so-called holding ...
By holding company is meant a corporation which exists merely for the purpose ..."
3. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1918)
"One of the advantages accruing to the holding company, aside from the ...
A holding company does not generally own all the stock of the subsidiary. ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"Yet these problems will have to be faced before long both by the judges and by
the legislators; for the holding company is likely to be succeeded by the ..."
5. Corporation Finance by Edward Sherwood Mead (1920)
"CHAPTER XXVIII THE holding company THE holding company is a corporation organized
for the purpose of acquiring the stocks and other securities of other ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"The unification of power and control over the oil industry which results from
combining in the hands of a holding company the capital stock of the various ..."
7. The Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry: An Update by Rebecca A. McNerney (1998)
"Notwithstanding any provision of this Act except as provided under this section,
a holding company that is exempt under section 3 of the Act shall be ..."
8. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1911)
"The unification of power and control over the oil industry which results from
combining in the hands of a holding company the capital stock of the various ..."
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