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English
Noun
holding company (plural holding companies)
- (business) A company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies, as opposed to producing goods or offering services.
- Coordinate terms: parent company, subsidiary
Derived terms
Translations
company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies
- Arabic: شَرِكَة قَابِضَة f (šarika qābiḍa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 控股公司 (kònggǔ gōngsī)
- Danish: holdingselskab n
- Esperanto: holdingo
- Finnish: holding-yhtiö, hallintayhtiö
- French: société faîtière f, société mère (fr) f, holding (fr) m or f
- German: Holding-Gesellschaft f
- Irish: cuideachta sealbhaíochta f
- Italian: holding (it) f
- Japanese: 持株会社 (ja), 持ち株会社 (もちかぶがいしゃ, mochikabu-gaisha)
- Korean: 지주회사(持株會社) (ko) (jijuhoesa)
- Polish: holding (pl) m
- Romanian: holding (ro) n
- Russian: хо́лдинговая компа́ния f (xóldingovaja kompánija), хо́лдинг (ru) m (xólding), матери́нская компа́ния (ru) f (materínskaja kompánija)
- Spanish: holding m (houldin), compañía gestora f, compaña tenedora de acciones f, sociedad de cartera f, grupo (financiero/industrial/empresarial) m
- Swedish: förvaltningsbolag n, holdingbolag (sv) n
- Turkish: holding (tr)
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