holdover
[hohld-oh-ver]
noun
a person or thing remaining from a former period.
Printing. overset that can be kept for future use.
Origin of holdover
1885–1890, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase hold over
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Contemporary Examples of holdover
Mad Men, in other words, is a holdover of sorts: the last of the original Golden Age dramas.
Unfortunately, there are only five of them, and one (Bjorn) is a holdover from the first game.
I remember thinking that it looked like a holdover from the disco days.
Perched atop a mountain of wavy, pulled-back hair is a mangled ball of manliness, a holdover from the days of the samurai.
This holdover off Sloane Square must be doing something right.
Historical Examples of holdover
A liquid substance which when applied to a "holdover" revivifies it and enables its owner to sit up and notice the bar-tender.
The Silly SyclopediaNoah Lott