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# holding — English to French

How English *holding* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [holding in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/holding/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: holding (57 048), holdings (12 318). By style: everyday 79 · literary 27 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 2 756 · legal and administrative 21 127 · UN documents 45 366.

## exploitations

Used about 11 445 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 005 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 023 · UN documents ≈ 1 418). Forms: exploitation, exploitations.

- These **holdings** operate in a traditional and environmentally-friendly manner.
  Ces **exploitations** utilisent des méthodes traditionnelles et respectueuses de l'environnement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 939549)

- hatching eggs on the **holding**.
  les œufs à couver présents dans l'**exploitation**.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 619015)

- But it would not have affected very much the percentage of total SGM realised on **holdings** below 4 ESU.
  Toutefois, il n &apos; aurait pas affecté sensiblement le pourcentage de la MBS totale réalisé sur les **exploitations** de moins de 4 UDE.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 1838251)

- I do not refer here to farmers with large **holdings** which are commercially viable.
  Je ne parle pas ici d'agriculteurs à la tête de grandes **exploitations** commercialement viables.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1773882)

- Herds or flocks, or **holdings** as appropriate.
  Troupeaux, cheptels ou **exploitations**, selon le cas.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1377896)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- You can't kill yourself by **holding** your breath.
  Tu ne peux pas te tuer en retenant ta respiration.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pandark · checked, community translation · [\#6873368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6873368) [\#830621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/830621))

- What's **holding** you back?
  Qu'est-ce qui te retient ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by meerkat and calypsow · checked, community translation · [\#2630425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2630425) [\#12420824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12420824))

- How are you **holding** up?
  Comment faites-vous face ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1453860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1453860) [\#1462332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1462332))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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