- stockholding
- stockholding stock‧hold‧ing [ˈstɒkˌhəʊldɪŋ ǁ ˈstɑːkˌhoʊl-] noun [countable, uncountable]FINANCE an amount of a company's shares that a person or organization owns or buys:
• Downward fluctuations in buying patterns affect the level of sales, production and stockholding.
• Before you call your broker and dump (= sell, even at a loss ) all your stockholdings, consider the data carefully.
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stockholding UK US (also stock-holding) /ˈstɒkˌhəʊldɪŋ/ noun [C or U]► 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.
Financial and business terms. 2012.