held - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'held' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Held

- imp. & p. p. of Hold.

2 . Held

[ imp. & p. p.]

- of Hold

1 . held

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Meaning (1):
- occupied or in the control of; often used in combination

Example in sentence:

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Hand-held computer
Hand-held computer is a computer that is smaller than notebooks and used primarily to collect field data.
Privately held corporation
Privately held corporation is a corporation that has only a few stockholders and whose stock is not available for sale to the general public.
Publicly held corporation
Publicly held corporation is a corporation that may have thousands of stockholders and whose stock is regularly traded on a national securities exchange...
Closely held corporation
Closely held corporation is a corporation in which the voting stock is held by a small number of individuals and is very thinly or infrequently traded.

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