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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'holding a contract' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to someone who is in possession of a signed agreement between two or more parties. For example: "The contracting officer was responsible for holding the contract between the two companies."
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The A400M, for example, has yet to catch on outside Europe, with just one foreign customer, Malaysia, holding a contract for four planes.
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Gerald Shargel, the lawyer, said the company holds a contract with the city's Board of Education and expects to retain it.
The authority currently holds a contract to purchase power from the KeySpan plants but pays more as fuel costs rise.
The Big East holds a contract with the Garden for its basketball tournament through 2016 and has played the tournament there since 1983.
"We see more options," said Ms. Cojocaru, who recently decamped from the Royal Ballet to the English National Ballet, and also holds a contract with the Hamburg Ballet.
He said Manganese holds a contract with the supplier that "covers warranty and negligence, and that contract will come into play".
He said that a home builder holds a contract to purchase parts of his property, which was once his family's turkey farm.
The family-run company has a broad portfolio of retail, commercial and residential buildings, and holds a contract to lease office space to federal agencies in Morristown, N.J.
Blackwater now employs 845 of the more than 1,100 private security contractors at work in Iraq and holds a contract worth $1.2 billion.
The role of Dentsu, the Japanese marketing giant that holds a contract with the IAAF until 2029, has also come under scrutiny.
Nearly all of the rest of the state's full-time online students attend a school managed by Pearson's Connections Education, a commercial firm that holds a contract with the Houston Independent School District.
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