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holdover
CIDE DICTIONARY
holdover, n.
Any person or thing remaining from a previous period of use, tenure, etc; [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
holdover
afterglow, afterimage, balance, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, debris, detritus, end, fag end, filings, fossil, husks, incumbent, ins, jack-in-office, lame duck, leavings, leftovers, new broom, odds and ends, office-bearer, officeholder, offscourings, orts, parings, president-elect, public official, public servant, rags, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, trace, vestige, wasteROGET THESAURUS
holdover
Lateness
N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.For further exploring for "holdover" in Webster Dictionary Online