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Meanings of holdover in English

An official who remains in office after his term.

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        Examples for "hangover"
        Examples for "hangover"
        1
        She was right though, he could really do without a hangover today.
        Blood harvest
        2
        The best way to cure your hangover is to start drinking again.
        The South African
        3
        Even after two bottles I did not really have a hangover today.
        The Guardian
        4
        A court in Frankfurt ruled recently that a hangover is an illness.
        The Irish Times
        5
        They call them 'hangover palms' because of the strength of the brew.
        The Memoirs of Cleopatra
        Usage of holdover in English
        1
        At best, religion is a holdover from a past filled with ignorance.
        Is Human Nature Obsolete?
        2
        On the sixteen roll calls the twenty holdover Senators cast 283 votes.
        Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
        3
        Provincial titles are a holdover from ancient terminology, and are outlined below:
        Space Master, GM Book
        4
        Cabaniss, a holdover from the pre-1950s Fellowship, was an Old Guard conservative.
        The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american p...
        5
        But soldiers and their families didn't hear about the holdover from their commanders.
        Wired
        6
        The holdover Senators made their poorest showing on the railroad measures.
        Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
        7
        God was just a superstitious holdover from when we thought fire was magic.
        Hollow World
        8
        Yates was a holdover from the administration of President Barack Obama.
        Reuters
        9
        The machine has, long before this, taken stock of those twenty holdover Senators.
        Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
        10
        Some holdover from childhood had brought it out of her.
        Empire in black and gold
        11
        One theory speculates that it may be an evolutionary holdover.
        Wired
        12
        Senators Hare and Kennedy, we have seen, although Democrats, got appointments to holdover committees.
        Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
        13
        I just had one problem: My monitor was literally a holdover from the same era.
        Wired
        14
        Chuck Rosenberg, a holdover from Democratic President Barack Obama's administration, left his job on Sunday.
        Reuters
        15
        Nuclear bunkers, a Cold War holdover, embody many of the contradictions in today's nuclear policy.
        Wired
        16
        He said his last name is a holdover from his days as a punk filmmaker.
        Reuters
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