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Hold-up problem
The hold-up problem is the underinvestment arising when a party makes relationship-specific investments before terms are agreed, fearing the partner will expropriate part of the return.
Holde Corona
Holde Corona is a 200-km-diameter corona, a quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 53.5N, 155.8E, IAU-named in 1994 after a German fertility goddess.
Holden
Holden, also known as General Motors Holden, was an Australian car brand and GM subsidiary that made Australia's own car from 1948 until the brand was retired in 2021.
Holden Camira
The Holden Camira was a mid-size front-wheel-drive sedan built by GM Holden in Australia from 1982 to 1989, winning Wheels Car of the Year 1982.
Holden Caprice
The Holden Caprice, sold as the HSV Caprice, was an Australian full-size luxury sedan produced by Holden from 1974 until 2017 and exported widely as the Chevrolet Caprice.
Holden Caulfield
Holden Caulfield is the teenage narrator and protagonist of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, who wanders Manhattan after being expelled from Pencey Prep.
Holden Commodore
The Holden Commodore is a large car sold by Holden in Australia and New Zealand from 1978 until 2020, built locally in South Australia until October 2017.
Holden Commodore (VE)
The Holden Commodore (VE), also known as the VE Commodore, is a full-size rear-wheel-drive sedan built by Holden in Australia from 2006 to 2013, the first Commodore engineered there from the ground up.
Holden Commodore (VF)
The Holden Commodore (VF), or VF Commodore, is a large rear-wheel-drive sedan, wagon, and ute built by Holden in South Australia from 2013 to 2017.
Holden Commodore (VT)
The Holden Commodore (VT), also known as the VT Commodore, is a full-size car Holden built in Australia from 1997 to 2000, replacing the VS.
Holden Commodore (VY)
The Holden Commodore (VY), also known as the VY Commodore, is a large car built by Holden in Australia from September 2002 to August 2004, when the VZ replaced it.
Holden Commodore (VZ)
The Holden Commodore (VZ), also called the Commodore VZ, is the fourth and final facelift of the VT-generation Commodore, released in August 2004 with new Alloytec V6 engines.
Holden Kingswood
The Holden Kingswood was an Australian full-size car produced by General Motors-Holden as a mid-range model from 1968 to 1980, with the name surviving on a WB-series utility until 1984.
Holden Monaro
Produced by the Australian-based General Motors subsidiary Holden, the Monaro is a two-door coupe from 1968 to 2006, later exported to the United States as the Pontiac GTO.
Holden Roberto
Holden Álvaro Roberto (1923–2007) was an Angolan nationalist politician who founded the movement that became the FNLA, leading it through independence war and civil war.
Holden Special Vehicles
Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) was the Australian performance-car manufacturer that modified and sold high-performance versions of Holden vehicles from 1988 to 2020, building about 90,000 cars, nearly all V8 Holden Commodores.
Holden Torana
The Holden Torana, also sold as the Holden Sunbird, was a small-to-medium car built by Holden in Australia from 1967 to 1980 across four generations.
Holden W. Withington
Holden W. Withington (Holden White Withington) was an American aeronautical engineer who spent his 42-year career at Boeing, helping design the B-52 bomber before retiring in 1983.
Hölder condition
A Hölder condition is a continuity requirement on a function, |f(x) − f(y)| ≤ A|x − y|^α with 0 < α ≤ 1; the case α = 1 is Lipschitz continuity.
Hölder's inequality
Hölder's inequality is a bound in analysis relating the integral of a product of functions to the product of their norms; it generalizes the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality.
Holding Back the Years
Holding Back the Years is a 1985 Simply Red ballad by Mick Hucknall and Neil Moss, produced by Stewart Levine for Picture Book; it hit number 1 on the US Hot 100 in July 1986 and number 2 in the UK on re-release.
Holding company
A holding company, or parent corporation, is a company that controls other companies by owning their voting stock while leaving daily operations to the subsidiaries.
Holding Out for a Hero
"Holding Out for a Hero" (1984) is a Bonnie Tyler song written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford for the Footloose soundtrack; UK No. 2 after 1985 re-release, later famous through Jennifer Saunders' Shrek 2 cover.
Holding pattern
A holding pattern is a racetrack-shaped flight path flown around a holding fix while an aircraft awaits clearance from air traffic control, typically during congestion or bad weather.
Holding period return
Holding period return (HPR) is the total return on an investment over one stated interval, computed as income plus the change in value divided by the beginning value, not annualized.
Holding space
Holding space: supportive practice of non-judgmental, present listening without fixing or judging, rooted in Winnicott's holding environment and popularized by Heather Plett's 2015 blog; used in therapy, coaching, and care.
Holding the Man (film)
Holding the Man (2015) is an Australian biographical drama directed by Neil Armfield, adapted by Tommy Murphy from Timothy Conigrave's memoir, starring Ryan Corr and Craig Stott as the couple Tim Conigrave and John Caleo.
Holdridge life zones
Holdridge life zones are a climate classification system naming regions by the vegetation their climate can support, proposed by Leslie Holdridge in 1947 and still used for mapping.
Hole (band)
Hole is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1989 by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson. Albums Pretty on the Inside, Live Through This, and Celebrity Skin; dissolved 2002; no reunion as of 2026.
Hole carding
Hole carding is an advantage play technique of seeing a dealer's face-down card, mainly in blackjack, through accidental exposure. Distinct from marked-card lenses, rigged shufflers, and edge sorting.