Usually means: Continue in position or place.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word hold over:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold over: Merriam-Webster
  2. hold over: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hold over: Vocabulary.com
  4. hold-over: Wordnik
  5. hold over: Wiktionary
  6. hold over: Dictionary.com
  7. hold over: Rhymezone
  8. hold over: FreeDictionary.org
  9. hold over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. hold over: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. hold over: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold over: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. hold-over, hold over: Legal dictionary
  4. hold over: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hold over: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hold over: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hold over: Idioms

(Note: See hold_overs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hold over)

verb:  (transitive, sometimes idiomatic) (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To save, delay.
verb:  (intransitive) To remain in office, possession, etc., beyond a certain date.
verb:  (transitive) To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone).
noun:  Misspelling of holdover. [(countable) Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.]

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