holdover

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

holdover
    n 1: an official who remains in office after his term [syn:
         {holdover}, {hangover}]
    2: something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from
       the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century" [syn:
       {hangover}, {holdover}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

holdover \holdover\ n.
   Any person or thing remaining from a previous period of use,
   tenure, etc; Specifically: an official who remains in office
   after his term.

   Syn: hangover.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

56 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, waste