Holding vs Investment - What's the difference?
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Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
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A determination of law made by a court.
A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
* 1596 , , V. i. 3:
(obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
(obsolete) Logic; consistency.
* 1598 , , IV. ii. 27:
(obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
* 1598 , , II. vii. 109:
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The act of investing, or state of being invested.
(finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
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* (William Shakespeare)
(military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
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A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.
As a proper noun holding
is .As a noun investment is
the act of investing, or state of being invested.holding
English
Noun
(wikipedia holding) (en noun)Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures
- Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
- Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.
- (Burke)
- This has no holding , / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.
- Make battery to our ears with the loud music; / The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. / The holding every man shall beat as loud / As his strong sides can volley.
Coordinate terms
* (determination) findingVerb
(head)Derived terms
* holding the ball * holding the cards * holding the man * inholdinginvestment
English
(wikipedia investment)Noun
(en noun)- An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
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- Whose white investments figure innocence.
- The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments .