Holdover

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  holdover
       n 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "holdover":
     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