stockholding

(also stock-holding)

/ˈstɒkˌhəʊldɪŋ/ noun [C or U]

Definition

› COMMERCE, PRODUCTION an amount of goods that a company keeps for use in the future: Warehousing and other stockholding costs will be high.

› STOCK MARKET, FINANCE the shares that someone owns in a particular company, or in companies in general: Caterpillar continued as the investment fund's largest stockholding, followed by General Motors. Keep at least a small portion of your stockholdings overseas.

(Definition of stockholding noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)