Definition of "hold over" []

• Alternative form of holdover. (noun)
• To save, delay (verb)

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• "And yet the theory was attractive, deserved to be spoken out loud: I think they fear Carlstein; he has some kind of hold over them that keeps the Gemini Club intact."
• "Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course—however little he penetrated its motive—she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him."
• "But the day was growing late, and I had come upon the sight of the place after a long and tiring circuit; so I resolved to hold over the adventure for the following day, and I returned to the welcome and the caresses of little Weena."