holdover
滞留,搁置,滞留期,滞留时间
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- : a person or thing remaining from a former period.
- : Printing. overset that can be kept for future use.
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Many of the holdovers from that team — attackman Matt Moore, midfielder Dox Aitken, defender Jared Conners and goalie Alex Rode among them — still play crucial roles.
Unfazed by a hostile legislature, Bukele began “cleaning house” by firing holdovers from previous governments from his administration.
The barriers are a holdover from a time when Internet access was a near-luxury—a consumer product rather than a utility.
While holdovers have largely powered the Leafs’ strong season, they wouldn’t have a 7 percent chance of winning the franchise’s first Cup since 1967 without the contributions from their newcomers.
That means that the larval phase isn’t a holdover from the deep past, but “a completely new evolutionary innovation,” he says.
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.
When our men enter military service, there is a strong holdover of their prodigal civilian habits.
A liquid substance which when applied to a "" revivifies it and enables its owner to sit up and notice the bar-tender.