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US
/ˈhoʊɫdɝ/
]
[ UK /hˈəʊldɐ/ ]
[ UK /hˈəʊldɐ/ ]
NOUN
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the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it
the bond was marked `payable to bearer' -
a holding device
a towel holder
an umbrella holder
a cigarette holder -
a person who holds something
he holds the trophy
she holds a United States passport
they held two hostages
How To Use holder In A Sentence
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- The cash raising was not unexpected and allows a few more shareholders on board. Times, Sunday Times
- He appealed to all householders to continually check their security arrangements.
- This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen). The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)
- Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
- On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
- Police are again urging householders to secure their property after a theft from a house in Kirkwall.
- The company said stockholders will be asked to approve the bid at a special meeting in late March.
- If the borsholder could not find such a number to answer for their innocence, the decennary was compelled by fine to make satisfaction to the king, according to the degree of the offence. [ The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
- Indeed, the schemes of co-determination in Germany constitute functioning examples of shareholders sharing control with one other stakeholder group, namely the employees.