holdover
a person or thing remaining from a former period.
Printing. overset that can be kept for future use.
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How to use holdover in a sentence
Many of the holdovers from that team — attackman Matt Moore, midfielder Dox Aitken, defender Jared Conners and goalie Alex Rode among them — still play crucial roles.
Maryland eyes perfection and Virginia seeks consecutive crowns in the men’s lacrosse title game | Patrick Stevens | May 30, 2021 | Washington PostUnfazed by a hostile legislature, Bukele began “cleaning house” by firing holdovers from previous governments from his administration.
What Happens Next in El Salvador—And What It Means for the U.S. Border | Ian Bremmer | May 10, 2021 | TimeThe barriers are a holdover from a time when Internet access was a near-luxury—a consumer product rather than a utility.
The best broadband in the US isn’t in New York or San Francisco. It’s in Chattanooga. | Samanth Subramanian | April 15, 2021 | QuartzWhile holdovers have largely powered the Leafs’ strong season, they wouldn’t have a 7 percent chance of winning the franchise’s first Cup since 1967 without the contributions from their newcomers.
The Deals That Have Shaped The NHL Season (So Far) | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | March 12, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThat means that the larval phase isn’t a holdover from the deep past, but “a completely new evolutionary innovation,” he says.
These fossilized lamprey hatchlings disprove an age-old evolutionary theory | Philip Kiefer | March 11, 2021 | Popular-Science
Mad Men, in other words, is a holdover of sorts: the last of the original Golden Age dramas.
Mad Men’s Dramatic Déjà Vu: ‘Time Zones’ Feels Redundant | Andrew Romano | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUnfortunately, there are only five of them, and one (Bjorn) is a holdover from the first game.
I remember thinking that it looked like a holdover from the disco days.
The True Story Behind Dallas Buyers Club: Meet the Real Ron Woodruff | Andrew Romano | November 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPerched atop a mountain of wavy, pulled-back hair is a mangled ball of manliness, a holdover from the days of the samurai.
This holdover off Sloane Square must be doing something right.
The $163,000 Question: What Does It Cost To Be Kate? | Tom Sykes | October 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen our men enter military service, there is a strong holdover of their prodigal civilian habits.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of DefenseA liquid substance which when applied to a "holdover" revivifies it and enables its owner to sit up and notice the bar-tender.
The Silly Syclopedia | Noah Lott
British Dictionary definitions for hold over
to defer consideration of or action on
to postpone for a further period
to prolong (a note, chord, etc) from one bar to the next
(preposition) to intimidate (a person) with (a threat)
an elected official who continues in office after his term has expired
a performer or performance continuing beyond the original engagement
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with holdover
Postpone or delay, as in Let's hold this matter over until the next meeting. [Mid-1800s]
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