holding company
noun [C]Definition
› FINANCE a company that owns large parts of other companies. Some holding companies have business activities themselves and others do not: Grupo Torras was the holding company of a large group of companies carrying out a variety of businesses in Spain. → Compare parent company
(Definition of holding company noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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