Presentation speech is holding record (9)
I believe the answer is:
depiction
'presentation' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'speech is holding record' is the wordplay.
'speech' becomes 'diction' (diction is someone's way of speaking).
'is holding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'record' becomes 'EP' (abbreviation for extended play record).
'diction' placed around 'ep' is 'DEPICTION'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for depiction that I've seen before include "drawing" , "picture" , "Representation in art" , "Portrayal" .)