holdover in English

noun
1
a person or thing surviving from an earlier time, especially someone surviving in office or remaining on a sports team.
the conservative holdover from the Eisenhower years
noun
verb

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1. The perception of the pricey Arabian is a holdover from the inflated

2. Holdover Trump Appointees are delaying stimulus payments, House Democrats complain Jon Skolnik 8 hrs ago

3. Tab stops are a (very useful) holdover from the days of typewriters. They allow you to align text into columns quickly and easily

4. Deep sea Anglerfish look like some kind of tragic holdover from the Precambrian Era, with their large head, dead eyes, fang-like teeth, and glowing “fishing rod” that extends from their dorsal

5. The court of appeals in Bewigged easily came to the conclusion that a holdover situation was not in effect because the agreement in question was not a lease, but a license