Usually means: Retained beyond the expected time.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. holdover: Merriam-Webster
  2. holdover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. holdover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. holdover: Collins English Dictionary
  5. holdover: Vocabulary.com
  6. Holdover, holdover: Wordnik
  7. holdover: Wiktionary
  8. holdover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. holdover: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. holdover: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. holdover: Dictionary.com
  12. holdover: Rhymezone
  13. holdover: FreeDictionary.org
  14. holdover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. holdover: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. holdover: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  17. holdover: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. holdover: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. holdover: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. holdover: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. holdover: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. holdover: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.
noun:  (firearms) The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop over the distance to the target.

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