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Meanings of holdover in английском

An official who remains in office after his term.

Usage of holdover in английском
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At best, religion is a holdover from a past filled with ignorance.
Is Human Nature Obsolete?
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On the sixteen roll calls the twenty holdover Senators cast 283 votes.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
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Provincial titles are a holdover from ancient terminology, and are outlined below:
Space Master, GM Book
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Cabaniss, a holdover from the pre-1950s Fellowship, was an Old Guard conservative.
The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american p...
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But soldiers and their families didn't hear about the holdover from their commanders.
Wired
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The holdover Senators made their poorest showing on the railroad measures.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
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God was just a superstitious holdover from when we thought fire was magic.
Hollow World
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Yates was a holdover from the administration of President Barack Obama.
Reuters
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The machine has, long before this, taken stock of those twenty holdover Senators.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
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Some holdover from childhood had brought it out of her.
Empire in black and gold
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One theory speculates that it may be an evolutionary holdover.
Wired
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Senators Hare and Kennedy, we have seen, although Democrats, got appointments to holdover committees.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
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I just had one problem: My monitor was literally a holdover from the same era.
Wired
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Chuck Rosenberg, a holdover from Democratic President Barack Obama's administration, left his job on Sunday.
Reuters
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Nuclear bunkers, a Cold War holdover, embody many of the contradictions in today's nuclear policy.
Wired
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He said his last name is a holdover from his days as a punk filmmaker.
Reuters
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