holdover

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++hold·o·ver /ˈhəʊldˌəʊvə $ ˈhoʊldˌoʊvər/ noun [countable] American English  REMEMBERan action, feeling, or idea that has continued from the past into the present 残余；遗留物；遗留影响 SYN hangoverholdover from Her fear of dogs is a holdover from her childhood. 她害怕狗，从小就怕。 → hold over at hold1

Examples from the Corpus

holdover• At first, he seemed like any other union hack, a holdover from the Boyle era.• Richard lived in a single-room occupancy, a holdover from the twenties, when Greenwich Village was filled with writers and artists.• It was a holdover from the days of her marriage that she had difficulty shaking.• With the exception of Maynor, those players represented the only holdovers from the Perry Moss regime, which ended in 1997.• Some of the librarians were holdovers from the Reagan administration.holdover from• Abe, with his long hair and beard, looks like a holdover from the 1960s.

hold·o·ver nounChineseSyllable  

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holdover
hold‧o‧ver /ˈhəʊldˌəʊvə $ ˈhoʊldˌoʊvər/ noun [countable] American English
an action, feeling, or idea that has continued from the past into the present
   SYN  hangover
    holdover from
    Her fear of dogs is a holdover from her childhood.
⇨ hold over at hold¹

hold·overBrE /ˈhəʊldəʊvə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhoʊldoʊvər/ 🔊 noun (NAmE) 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 （在下届政府中）留任的官员