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单词 holding
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holding
(hldɪŋ )
Word forms: holdings
1. countable noun
If you have a holding in a company, you own shares in it. [business]
That would increase Olympia & York's holding to 35%.
Sid's amazing wealth comes from holdings in oil, gas, land and property.
Synonyms: property, securities, investments, resources  
2. countable noun
A holding is an area of farm land which is owned or rented by the person who grows crops on it.
3. plural noun
The holdings of a place such as a museum, library, or art gallery are the items such as books or paintings which are kept there.
4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A holding operation or action is a temporary one that is intended to keep a situation under control and to prevent it from becoming worse.
A garden is, at best, a holding operation against nature.
Idioms:
leave someone holding the bag [mainly US]
to make someone responsible for a problem that nobody else wants to deal with. The usual British expression is leave someone holding the baby.
If a project goes bust, investors are left holding the bag.
leave someone holding the baby [British]
to make someone responsible for a problem that nobody else wants to deal with. The usual American expression is leave someone holding the bag.
If anything goes wrong on this, Agnes, it's you and I who'll be left holding the baby.
Collocations:
combined holding
However, they remain the biggest investors, with a combined holding of about 25 per cent, estimated to be worth up to 12.5 million.
Times, Sunday Times
Sources close to the company pointed to the fact that the combined holding of its two biggest shareholders did not amount to a majority.
Times, Sunday Times
However, with a combined holding of nearly 25% the hedge funds and traders could still frustrate his plans to merge the two businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
Which combined holding would you rather have?
Times, Sunday Times
Management, who have a combined holding of 3.26 per cent, have also given irrevocable undertakings to accept.
Times, Sunday Times
existing holdings
My existing holdings are mainly through index funds, meaning that smaller and more interesting markets hardly get a look-in because of their small capitalisation.
Times, Sunday Times
Those shunning the offer need to be compensated for the dilution in the value of their existing holdings.
Times, Sunday Times
Existing shareholders will be given the chance to buy ordinary (but not preference) shares, so their existing holdings are not diluted.
Times, Sunday Times
They would have to take big writedowns on their existing holdings of land.
Times,Sunday Times
Sometimes it's better to just top up on existing holdings.
Times, Sunday Times
hold hostage
We can't afford to have communities held hostage to hate.
The Sun
But rules were followed only half the time, and the program was held hostage by bureaucratic gridlock and the whims of powerful individuals.
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The work was not held hostage to a stereotype or disagreements.
Christianity Today
I was held hostage in my own home.
Times,Sunday Times
How can nations prevent forests from being held hostage for ransom?
Mail and Guardian
holding area
Don't use your home as a holding area.
The Sun (2016)
We are ushered into a holding area.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They were just kept in a horrible holding area.
The Sun (2010)
They were blindfolded again and taken in a truck to a holding area, similar to a double hotel room with an en-suite bathroom.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
holding facility
A temporary holding facility was constructed but rarely used.
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He opened the first centers to deal with juvenile truancy, including a temporary holding facility.
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The county no longer has a holding facility that can accommodate a high school.
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Figures show just 11,152 of 25,487 who left removal centres or short-term holding facilities last year had to depart the country.
The Sun
It can be retained in various holding facilities.
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large holdings
Falling stock markets will have seriously dented the value of the assets of funds with large holdings in equities.
Times,Sunday Times
The word 'investment' can be daunting, suggesting large holdings of stocks and shares.
Times, Sunday Times
Other large holdings include a property fund and a yen fund.
Times, Sunday Times
Several kept their shares after entering government despite the possibility that such large holdings might create a conflict of interest.
Times, Sunday Times
Reforms to the financial system penalise banks that keep large holdings of bonds on their books - inventory they are required to hold to run a trading service for their clients.
Times, Sunday Times
portfolio holdings
The archbishop explained that because the stake was held indirectly via three private equity portfolio holdings, it was difficult to exit quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
Intuitively, the best way to do this would be through an investment trust or fund, which in theory should provide further diversification through its portfolio holdings.
Times,Sunday Times
Investors need to monitor their portfolio holdings periodically, he said.
Globe and Mail
This allows major investment funds to earn incremental income on their portfolio holdings.
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sell holdings
Fund managers would have a clearer idea of when they might have to sell holdings to meet redemptions.
Times, Sunday Times
Critics suggest property should not be held in open-ended funds, where a manager may have to sell holdings to pay customers who want their cash.
Times,Sunday Times
It raises fresh issues, too, about open-ended funds: the sort that risk going into a death spiral when managers are forced to sell holdings to meet redemptions.
Times,Sunday Times
stock holding
The short-form accounts do not feature every stock holding.
Times,Sunday Times
Its new systems optimise stock holding and makes for a more efficient shopping experience.
ST
The firm supplies 6,000 trade clients and says frequency of delivery allows them to reduce stock holding.
Times, Sunday Times
Other results of the drive to introduce lean manufacturing have been to eliminate waste, reduce unused capacity by 30 per cent and reduce stock holding by 50 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
With secured financial investment from a bank the company became a stock holding company in 1898.
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total holdings
The 3.1 billion withdrawal amounts to 1.6 per cent of total holdings held by individuals.
Times, Sunday Times
Total holdings are worth much more.
Times, Sunday Times
The company, which allows investors to buy physical bullion, which it stores, said that net purchases of 470kg took total holdings to nearly 36 tonnes, worth $1.5 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
Total holdings are over 57,000 volumes with over 60 periodical subscriptions.
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Its total holdings include about 1.3 million pieces, as well as twenty-two historic buildings.
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