The phrase "associates hold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the responsibilities, positions, or roles that associates have within a company or organization.
Example: "The associates hold various positions that are crucial to the success of our project."
Alternatives: "associates possess" or "associates maintain".
You must inform your department head of any significant interest in any shares or securities that you know you or your close family/ associates hold before writing or broadcasting about such shares or securities.
Perloff's property group Panther Securities and its associates hold 29.72% of Beales, as well as owning the freeholds of 11 of the company's 30 stores and providing a £1m loan.
Other formal investigations under way involve his role in awarding public housing contracts to party supporters and allegations that some of the mayor's political associates hold city jobs but do no work.
Griffin himself may be a former National Front member with a conviction for inciting racial hatred, and the veneer of respectability on the party's candidates may be transparently thin, but however noxious or downright laughable the views they and their party associates hold, the truth is that the BNP is the fastest growing political party in modern Britain.
Balakrishnan and a small group of associates hold 32%.
Today, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), a group whose members and associates hold quite a different perspective regarding the use of the "N" word than Dr. Laura and her cohorts, released an official response calling for accountability by media personalities and their parent companies for the use of profane and offensive racial slurs.
Mr. Vyakhirev and a tight group of associates held sway over Gazprom's assets, including whole towns in Siberia.
There his associates held a kuriltai, or "great assembly," and on May 5 Kublai was unanimously elected khan, thus succeeding Möngke.
Boras sounded hoarse, on account of a tour-de-force performance at "media day," the previous morning, where he and a phalanx of five broad-shouldered associates held court for five hours in the lobby of the Westin St. Francis.
A core ensemble played the score, and toy glockenspiels were distributed to the crowd, which had its own instructions: Siegel's associates held up cue cards to indicate when we should move from one note to another.
Clarke has helped over 9000 black college graduates find jobs in industry, partly through the Hallmark Employment Agency, & partly through the Employment Opportunities Center which Richard Clarke Associates holds every year in N.Y, Chicago, Washington, & Atlanta.
