gold holding
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgoldandholding
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gold
noun
uk/ɡəʊld/us/ɡoʊld/
a chemical element that is a valuable, shiny, yellow metal used to make coins ...
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holding
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈhəʊl.dɪŋ/us/ˈhoʊl.dɪŋ/
In football, if a midfield player has a holding role, their main job is to help the defence rather than attack an ...
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(Definition ofgoldandholdingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgold holding
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You could equally well increase the note issue by increasing thegoldholding.
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The banknote security against this is £56,200,000;goldholding, £160,326,000.
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Look at this matter of the country's totalgoldholding.
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The question is, of this totalgoldholdingof £160,000,000 which we possess, how much have we set aside for these two purposes?
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I have said that the present total of thegoldholdingin this country is in excess of £600,000,000.
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Historically, thegoldholdingin the issue department was a reserve against an internal drain of the currency.
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Some proportion might be established between the total of bills on such a country to be held at any time and the totalgoldholdingof that country.
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It is not very difficult to imagine—there is nothing fantastic about this at all—circumstances in which this "maldistribution" ofgoldholdingmight lead to international friction.
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Any comparative shortness of supply in recent months is due partly to seasonal causes and partly to the substantial reduction in ourgoldholdinglast year.
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Is that an increase in the gold holdings?
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That is not a figure which can be indefinitely made good out of our resources in foreign exchange, and gold holdings and even securities.
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It is quite impossible to avoid at the same time both addition to our gold holdings and wide fluctuations of exchange rates.
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One possibility would be to use these gold holdings as collateral for raising resources in financial markets which can be re-lent to developing countries.
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So will our own more modest gold holdings.
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Reducing our gold holdings from 715 tonnes to some 300 tonnes over a number of years will gradually bring gold's share of the net reserves down to about a fifth.
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Furthermore, investors bear the potential risk that gold holdings are embezzled by a provider, custodian, or individual, or stolen by third parties.
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There was no mention in the probate of any gold holdings.
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This encourages gold borrowings so that central banks can earn interest on their large gold holdings.
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