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Holding

Holding Meaning & Definition
Holding Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Holding?

[n] the act of keeping in your possession
[n] something owned; any tangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";
[adj] designed for (usually temporary) retention; "a holding pen"; "a retaining wall"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Holding: belongings | keeping | material possession | property | retaining | retention | retentive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Holding: absolute interest | absorbing | adverse possession | alodium | arresting | attractive | bearing | benefit | blessed with | block | board lot | bolstering | bottling up | bracing | burdened | burgage | buttressing | carrying | claim | clinging | colony | common | compelling | compulsive | consuming | contingent interest | corking up | de facto | de jure | dependency | derivative title | driving | dummy share | easement | enchanting | enfeoffed | engaging | engrossing | enthralling | equitable interest | equity | estate | even lot | fascinating | fee fief | fee position | fee simple | fee simple absolute | fee simple conditional | fee simple defeasible | fee simple determinable | fee tail | feodum | feud | fiefdom | fractional lot | frankalmoign | free socage | freehold | full lot | gavelkind | grasping | gripping | having | having and holding | having title to | hold | holding in | holdings | hypnotic | impelling | in possession of | inhibition | interest | keeping | knight service | landed | landholding | landowning | lay fee | lease | leasehold | legal claim | legal possession | limitation | locking in | lot | magnetic | maintaining | maintenance | mandate | master of | mesmeric | mesmerizing | obsessing | obsessional | obsessive | occupancy | occupation | occupying | odd lot | original title | owning | part | percentage | possessed of | possessing | possession | preference share | prehension | preoccupancy | preoccupation | preoccupying | prepossession | prescription | preservation | propertied | property | property rights | property-owning | propping | proprietary rights | repression | retainment | retention | retentive | retentiveness | retentivity | right | right of entry | round lot | seisin | seized of | settlement | share | shoring | socage | spellbinding | squatting | stake | stockholding | stockholdings | strict settlement | sublease | supporting | supportive | suppression | suspensory | sustaining | sustentative | tenacious | tenacity | tenancy | tenantry | tenure | tenure in chivalry | tenured | title | trust | underlease | undertenancy | upholding | use | usucapion | vested interest | villein socage | villeinhold | villenage | worth

See Also | church property | commonage | community property | estate | heirloom | hereditament | landholding | lease | letting | ownership | personal estate | personal property | personalty | possession | possession | private property | public property | ratables | rateables | real estate | real property | realty | rental | salvage | shareholding | spirituality | spiritualty | stockholding | stockholdings | storage | things | trade-in | trust | wealth | withholding | worldly belongings | worldly goods | worldly possessions

Holding In Webster's Dictionary

\Hold"ing\, n. 1. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. 2. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. 3. That which holds, binds, or influences. --Burke. 4. The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] --Shak. {Holding note} (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

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