Dictionary Definition
holdover
Noun
1 an official who remains in office after his
term [syn: hangover]
2 something that has survived from the past; "a
holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century" [syn:
hangover]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
holdover- Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.
- That policy is a holdover from days of punch card data entry.''
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
afterglow, afterimage, balance, butt, butt end, candle ends,
chaff, debris, detritus, end, fag end, filings, fossil, husks, incumbent, ins, jack-in-office, lame duck,
leavings, leftovers, new broom, odds and
ends, office-bearer, officeholder, offscourings, orts, parings, president-elect, public
official, public servant, rags, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, trace, vestige, waste