holding
/ˈhəʊldɪŋ/ sustantivo B1En español: tenencia, participación, fallo judicial
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- A determination of law made by a court.
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
Plural holdings
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“I must be growing small again.” She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
“What day of the month is it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.
Some of his own holdings were imperilled, and the man was working like some high-geared, delicate, strong machine—strung to full tension, going at full speed, accurate, never hesitating, with the proper word and decision and act ready and prompt as clockwork.
Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk--as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night.
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