holdover

noun

1. （在下届政府中）留任的官员
   a person who keeps a position of power, for example sb who had a particular position in one administration and who still has it in the next

1. The function to retrieve the data from the first element of a list is called car ( a name which is a holdover from an ancient assembly language instruction).
   从列表的第一个元素获取数据的函数称为car（这个名字是古老的汇编语言指令的延续）。
2. The traditional explanation for the summer holiday is that it is an agricultural holdover: farms needed children to help with planting and harvesting.
   作为放暑假的传统理由，人们认为这是一种农耕时代的遗风：当时的农场需要孩子们帮助种植和收割。
3. You should not be teaching debits and credits; they are a holdover from the past that were needed to balance entries and accounts before we had computers.
   我们在这堂课中不会教“借方”与“贷方”，它们是在过去我们还没有计算机的时候，用来平衡帐户帐项而延续至今的名词。
4. This will be a holdover from last month, as Mercury first started to slow down in mid-April.
   这是上月的延期&水星在四月中旬的第一次放慢速度。
5. But most of America's overlap is a useless holdover from the days when commercial and investment banks, thrifts, government-sponsored enterprises and commodity dealers did different things.
   但是美国大部分的重复监管却是一种从商业银行、投资银行、储贷机构、政府支持的房屋抵押贷款机构和大宗商品交易商职能分工各司其职那天起就毫无用处的“虚职”。
6. Whether it's demons or some holdover from a dysfunctional childhood, he cannot stand to be alone.
   不知是天生如此还是受到不幸孩提时代的影响，他无法忍受独自一人。
7. He is a holdover from the last administration.
   他是前内阁的留任者。
8. Question: in2004 for application for holdover of housing accumulation fund unit's policy is like?
   的问题：在2004年申请缓缴住房公积金单位的政策是如何？
9. Dunbar's new band was Blue Whale and had a sole holdover from the drummer's previous combo, Tommy Eyre.
   邓巴的新乐队是蓝鲸，并有唯一之前的鼓手推荐的。
10. At the end, the research on the hardware design and algorithms of the second-class frequency standards system which has the holdover and keeping function are discussed in this paper.
    最后对实现具有驯服保持功能的二级频标系统的硬件组成及软件算法进行了研究。
11. Milli-second postpone electricity detonator again call small margin electricity detonator, is a kind of holdover accuracy request higher, structure more complications, involve production unit more engineering detonator.
    毫秒延期电雷管又叫微差电雷管，是一种延期精度要求较高，结构较复杂，涉及生产单元较多的工程雷管。

noun

1. something that has survived from the past
   1. a holdover from the sixties
   2. hangovers from the 19th century

   Synonym:    hangover

2. an official who remains in office after his term

   Synonym:    hangover