noun

• 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.
• (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
• (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
• (obsolete, rare) That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power.
• (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
• A surname.