holdover

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It's not that being held up or detained is new to us ... only usually the holdover is at the airport on account of trying to get the six laptops, four phones and assorted recording devices through to carry-on.

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  1. noun One that is held over from an earlier time: a political advisor who was a holdover from the Reagan era; a family tradition that is a holdover from my grandparents' childhood.

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  • Most of these were sailors from the Imperial Japanese Navy The holdover was a group of Nissen huts surrounded by a high woven-wire fence topped by barbed wire and a charged wire carrying a discouraging amount of electricity. —  140 - Jiu San
  • A holdover from the Korean conflict, the battered relic gets me where I need to go with only minimal creaking and protesting. —  EQMM,July2007
  • Current record-holdover is "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," which grossed $44.2 million in its first day in July —  Variety.com
  • Had we just sworn in a Republican President, this would be evidence that homelessness is on the rise, but instead we'll see it presented as a holdover Bush problem with which The Chosen One must heroically grapple. —  House of Eratosthenes
  • Whether your camera is brand new or an aging holdover, you want to accessorize it, but you don't want to pay. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
 

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