Postpone vs Holdover - What's the difference?
postpone | holdover |
To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
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, title= Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.''
:That policy is a holdover from days of punch card data entry.
The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop over the distance to the target.
:This rangefinder not only measures the distance to the target, but also provides a digital readout of the inches of holdover at that distance.
As a verb postpone
is to delay or put off an event, appointment etc.As a noun holdover is
something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time''.postpone
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(postpon)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
