bank holding company

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   a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks

   Broaderholding company

   Narrowermultibank holding company

Questions about bank holding company

What does bank holding company mean?

bank holding company means "a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks".

Is bank holding company a common word?

bank holding company is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.