Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

holding

UK [ˈhəʊɫdɪŋ] · US [ˈhoʊɫdɪŋ] noun, proper noun

Also a form of hold

Forms holdings

noun Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
noun A determination of law made by a court.
noun A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
noun (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
noun (sports) A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
noun (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
noun (obsolete, rare) That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power.
noun (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company.
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

From hold + -ing. The sense "holding company" is from Russian холдинг (xolding), a pseudo-anglicism derived from an ellipsis of holding company.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “holding”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “holding” (best matches first).