Holding in a sentence as a noun

That is, you can use a bioweapon to prevent your enemy from gaining or holding a strategic position.

I don't want to do that to a startup, but they are holding my patient data hostage in their system and refusing to respond to the demand letter.

I can gaurentee that we can build concrete pylons capable of holding up a steel tube, that is done all over the country dozens of different uses cases.

We can't condemn atrocities anywhere in the world without first holding America up as a paragon of all that is evil.

We'd be strolling down the street during a beautiful summer sunset, and she'd be holding my hand with one of hers, and with the other she'd be scrolling through Instagram.

If IPOs come back strong some day, then you may be giving up too much at such a cost because they are the great leveler when it comes to weighing the value of options against other forms of equity holdings.

How criminal defendants are going to react if, years later, they learn that the government was holding exculpatory information?And it's just going to go on, and on, until they finally open it all up.

The Embrace/Extend/Extinguish methodology which was created under Gates is something that anyone working in infrastructure is going to be fighting for the next 30 years, and it's holding innovation back.

The value of options is inextricably linked to tax and you need to understand the tax basics in evaluating the economic risks and benefits of holding and exercising any kind of option.

The Icelandic people felt that the legal ambiguity on the legality of holding the Icelandic government responsible meant that if any repayment was to be done it should be shouldered by both parties.

Architecturally, almost everything that worked back then still works now, including OS research, PL research, algorithms research, and software engineering research -- the four pillars that are holding up the modern software world.

The Federal Circuit's holding by a 3-judge panel had been remarkable and had shocked patent lawyers generally in that the parties before the court had not even raised the issue on appeal as a ground for invalidating the jury's verdict below.

Holding definitions

noun

the act of retaining something

See also: retention keeping

noun

something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";

See also: property belongings