BANK HOLDING COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bank holding company mean? 

• BANK HOLDING COMPANY (noun)
  The noun BANK HOLDING COMPANY has 1 sense:

1. a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks

  Familiarity information: BANK HOLDING COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANK HOLDING COMPANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A holding company owning or controlling one or more banks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("bank holding company" is a kind of...):

holding company (a company with controlling shares in other companies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bank holding company"):

multibank holding company (a bank holding company owning several banks)