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parent company

noun

  1. a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies ( holding company ).


parent company

noun

  1. a company that owns more than half the shares of another company
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of parent company1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Discovery is the parent company of both Max and Warner Bros.

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However, the network's parent company, Paramount, has been looking to settle with the president, as it hopes to stay in his good graces.

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The sale of Royal Mail's parent company to a Czech billionaire has been cleared by shareholders.

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The chief executive of Southern California Edison’s parent company said on Tuesday that the company was likely to suffer “material losses” related to the deadly Eaton fire, which ignited on Jan. 7 and burned more than 14,000 acres.

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But in its official reports to the Federal Election Commission, the political action committee for Edison International — the utility’s parent company — listed Calderon’s occupation as an executive in more than a dozen filings made before she left the company in 2020 to run for office.

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