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holdoverhold‧o‧ver /ˈhəʊldˌəʊvə $ ˈhoʊldˌoʊvər/ noun [countable] American English - 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 twenties, when Greenwich Village was filled with writers and artists.
- Some of the librarians were holdovers from the Reagan administration.
- With the exception of Maynor, those players represented the only holdovers from the Perry Moss regime, which ended in 1997.
an action, feeling, or idea that has continued from the past into the present SYN hangoverholdover from Her fear of dogs is a holdover from her childhood. → hold over at hold1 |