holdover
hohl doh ver
- n an official who remains in office after his term
- n something that has survived from the past
a holdover from the sixties
- It may be a holdover from the country's beginnings.
- Park, Diebenkorn and Bischoff regularly drew together from live models, eschewing abstract expressionism's notion of drawing "from the subconscious," a holdover from surrealist .
- LaHood, a downstate Republican, is the President-elect's first full Republican appointee Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Bush Administration holdover, is a registered .