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say it: STAHK-hohl-ding
stockholding is a noun meaning "a specific number of stocks or shares owned". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a specific number of stocks or shares owned
“sell holdings he has in corporations”
ownership of stocks; the state or fact of holding stock
“prohibition of unrestricted intercorporate stockholding”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stockholding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.