holdover

[ hohld-oh-ver ]

noun

1. a person or thing remaining from a former period.
2. Printing. overset that can be kept for future use.

Word History and Origins

Origin of holdover¹

1885–1890, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase hold over

Example Sentences

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.

From Washington Post

Unfazed by a hostile legislature, Bukele began “cleaning house” by firing holdovers from previous governments from his administration.

From Time

The barriers are a holdover from a time when Internet access was a near-luxury—a consumer product rather than a utility.

From Quartz

While 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.

From FiveThirtyEight

That means that the larval phase isn’t a holdover from the deep past, but “a completely new evolutionary innovation,” he says.

From Popular-Science

Mad Men, in other words, is a holdover of sorts: the last of the original Golden Age dramas.

From The Daily Beast

Unfortunately, there are only five of them, and one (Bjorn) is a holdover from the first game.

From The Daily Beast

I remember thinking that it looked like a holdover from the disco days.

From The Daily Beast

Perched atop a mountain of wavy, pulled-back hair is a mangled ball of manliness, a holdover from the days of the samurai.

From The Daily Beast

This holdover off Sloane Square must be doing something right.

From The Daily Beast

When our men enter military service, there is a strong holdover of their prodigal civilian habits.

From Project Gutenberg

A liquid substance which when applied to a "holdover" revivifies it and enables its owner to sit up and notice the bar-tender.

From Project Gutenberg