previous holder

collocation in English

meaningsofpreviousandholder

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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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holder
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhəʊl.dər/us
/ˈhoʊl.dɚ/
a device for putting objects in or for keeping them ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandholderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We said that titles springing from thepreviousholderof the title, such as the widow, would remain.
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It is only titles which spring from thepreviousholderof the title which remain.
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How can that be if the company may at any time repay the tax to thepreviousholder?
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If thepreviousholderof the office had already resigned, there would be no difficulty of course.
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It was quite dishonest of thepreviousholderof that high office to fabricate the results.
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He brought delegations of objectors to put their case to thepreviousholderof my office.
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I want to show that thepreviousholderof the office, at a salary of£8,000 a year, discharged his duties with efficiency and to the satisfaction of everybody concerned.
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The two things do link up and, as apreviousholderof my office said, they go quite a part of the way together; but not all the way.
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The adoption order is not merely saying that someone else has acquired the parental responsibility; the order has gone on to deprive thepreviousholderof that responsibility.
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They did not have a vote negated by thepreviousholder.
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The award is passed down from thepreviousholderof the award on his or her retirement, or in case of death.
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This gift came with a reinstated title; because of attempts by thepreviousholdersome years earlier to assert independence, it had been suppressed.
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Such a title can only be assumed after the death of apreviousholder, under restrictive succession conventions.
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In 2003, he won a by-election to select a councillor after thepreviousholderof that position died suddenly, and he served out the remainder of her term.
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Powell subsequently took up the presidency when thepreviousholderleft.
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It now descends according to absolute cognatic primogeniture, meaning that the eldest child (regardless of gender) succeeds to the dukedom upon the death of thepreviousholder.
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That is not an implicit criticism of the present or previous holders of those posts; each has given excellent service to the authority.
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It seems inexplicable that neither of the two previous holders of that high office saw fit to extend such an invitation.
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By law, previous holders of the lease can be forced to pay the arrears, if the current holder defaults on payment.
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The uniform signifies the importance of the office which the current bearer has taken on from previous holders of the office and which will be carried on for the future.
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