The meaning of HOLDING is land held especially by a vassal or tenant. How to use holding in a sentence.

HOLDING definition: 1. something that you own such as shares in a company or buildings, or land that you rent and farm…. Learn more.

hold implies the capacity of containing or the usual or permanent function of containing or keeping. accommodate stresses holding without crowding or inconvenience. Verb Hold the rail so you won't …

Holding (American football) In gridiron football, holding is the illegal use of the hand or arm to restrain another player who is not in possession of the ball. Holding is prohibited in most football leagues …

the act of a person or thing that holds. hold. a section of land leased or otherwise tenanted, especially for agricultural purposes. a company owned by a holding company. Often holdings. legally owned …

1. Tending to impede or delay progress: a holding action. 2. Designed for usually short-term storage or retention: a holding tank; a holding cell.

A holding is an area of farm land which is owned or rented by the person who grows crops on it.

an act of holding with the hand or other physical means: a good hold on the rope. something to hold a thing by: climbing up using the toe holds on the mountainside.

the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.

holding, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary