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What is "hold over"

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hold over

n. (alternative form of holdover English) vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) to save, delay 2 To remain in office, possession, etc., beyond a certain date.

WordNet
hold over

  1. v. intimidate somebody (with a threat); "She was holding it over him"

  2. hold over goods to be sold for the next season [syn: carry over]

  3. keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time

  4. continue a term of office past the normal period of time

  5. hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off]

Usage examples of "hold over".

But before it came to this, they fetched from her hold over a score of English seamen as battered and broken as the ship herself, and together with these some half-dozen Spaniards in like case, the only survivors of a boarding party from the Spanish galleon that had invaded the English ship and found itself unable to retreat.

I admit at once that new systems of dogma, such as those of the Nazis and the Communists, are even worse than the old systems, but they could never have acquired a hold over men's minds if orthodox dogmatic habits had not been instilled in youth.

This heritage, ironically foisted on us when Roman politics raised the faith of a whipped and broken people to supremacy in the later empire, has naturally kept a strong hold over the weak and sentimentally thoughtless.

How much hold over them would I have lost if I had caved in on the priest?

I tried to pull my jacket off to hold over the wound, but my left arm didn't want to work.

Among some people the personal name held such great importance that they never revealed it to strangers, lest that give another some psychic hold over them.

The girl thought it probable that the other woman had some hold over her.

She wanted those notes desperately - does still - not for Bronson, but to hold over his head for some purpose.

Why enfeeble the Empire's hold over those great provinces in order to gain the approval of a miserable pope squatting in Italy, surrounded by semibarbarian Goths?