holder:
(plural: ‘holders‘)
wrestling heavy weight title holders
a person who has control, as of a place, or possesses land, or titles, e.g. a ‘degree holder’– a person who has the highest qualification from a collage or university; a ‘title holder’ — a person who has or is given a title; a ‘householder’ — a person who owns or rents a house or the head of a house;
an owner of something,
a degree holder (a university graduate)
A title holder can be either of the two: a person who wins a competition, let’s say in boxing, and is given the name ‘heavy weight champion’ which is the title, and the other one is the owner of or heir to a property or estate, usually when the property is under dispute, for instance, James and John claimed ownership of a property but the court decided that John was the legal title holder, which means John has the legal right to that property.
An ‘inholder’, in American usage, is a person who owns a piece of land within a large area that belongs to the state/government, etc., and an ‘inholding’ is a piece of land owned by a person near a national park, wildlife refuge, or some other important important.
It is estimated that by the year 2015, the degree holders, those who have finished their college or university courses, in the world would be mostly from China or India.
