🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

sociedad de cartera

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sosjeðad de kaɾteɾa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Holding company/ˈhoʊl.dɪŋ ˌkʌm.pə.ni/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La sociedad de cartera posee acciones en varias empresas subsidiarias."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A parent corporation, limited liability company, or limited partnership that owns enough voting stock in another company to control its policies and management, without producing goods or services itself.

    "The tech conglomerate operates as a holding company for various software and hardware startups."
  2. 2

    An enterprise set up to shield assets from financial liabilities and legal risks by isolating operating subsidiaries.

    "They restructured their business model to place all real estate assets under a single holding company."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb hold (from Old English haldan, meaning to keep, possess, or detain) combined with company (from Old French compagnie, meaning society or body of associates). The financial sense of a corporation that owns other companies' stock dates back to the late 19th century during the expansion of corporate trusts in the United States.

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