2 example sentences using holdover.

Holdover used in a sentence

Holdover in a sentence as a noun

This is a holdover of calling party pays so that a caller will know where a given phone number "lives.

"Brazil's wiretapping mania is a holdover from the country's 20-year dictatorship[...] The president of the Supreme Court, who believes he also was spied on, called police methods totalitarian.

Holdover definitions

noun

an official who remains in office after his term

See also: hangover

noun

something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century"

See also: hangover