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holdover
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an official who remains in office after his term [syn: hangover ] something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century" [syn: hangover ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.'' 2 The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop over the distance to the target.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At first, he seemed like any other union hack, a holdover from the Boyle era. ▪ It was a holdover from the days of her marriage that she had difficulty shaking. ▪ Richard lived in a single-room occupancy, a holdover from the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
holdover \holdover\ n. Any person or thing remaining from a previous period of use, tenure, etc; Specifically: an official who remains in office after his term. Syn: hangover.
Usage examples of holdover.
OF THE MULTIPLE ISSUES in contention between Britain and the new United States of America, and that John Adams had to address as minister, nearly all were holdovers from the Treaty of Paris, agreements made but not resolved, concerning debts, the treatment of Loyalists, compensation for slaves and property confiscated by the British, and the continued presence of British troops in America.
You will find them along the highways, in the all-night diners, and in the old brass-rail bars that still serve 10-cent beer -- a motley, varied, and always talkative legion of men who fit no pattern except that they all seem like holdovers from the days of the Great Depression.
He had excoriated the train then, as an example of the deranged values of government-dominated society, a costly boondoggle, a holdover of pre-millennial thinking.
Many distributionists are left-wing holdovers from the Cold War era, ideological opponents of corporate capitalism.
A holdover from the same historical epoch as the Maoists, the other war, the one that had gone on inside people's brains and central nervous systems.
If he's not, then he's at least a Markovian holdover who knows damned well where humanity came fromincluding his little group.
If he's not, then he's at least a Markovian holdover who knows damned well where humanity came from—.
In fact, she was a holdover from the same anti-Manticoran faction within the IAN which had produced Graf von Sternhafen, who'd done so much to help make Honor's last duty assignment .
Perhaps it was a holdover from her chosen self-reliant life-style all the way back in the dinosaur days of the '60s, but Edwina Godz was willing to live by the wisdom that if you wanted to live life to the fullest, without the pesky interference of the Man, you should definitely grow your own.