Cryptic crossword clue
Object when holiday is cut short 3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word RES

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The straight part
We know that "Object" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case object = res.
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What does RES mean?

RES noun
  1. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
  2. Something that is withheld or kept back.
  3. (often in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt.
  4. A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
  5. An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
  6. The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
  7. The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
RES noun
  1. A place where anything is kept in store
  2. A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
  3. A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
  4. A supply or source of something.
  5. A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
RES noun
  1. The place where one lives; one's home.
  2. A building used as a home.
  3. The place where a corporation is established.
  4. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  5. Accommodation for students at a university or college.
  6. The place where anything rests permanently.
  7. Subsidence, as of a sediment
  8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
RES noun
  1. A strong will, determination.
  2. The state of being resolute.
  3. A statement of intent, a vow
  4. The act of discerning detail.
  5. (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
  6. The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
  7. The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
  8. The act or process of solving; solution.
  9. A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
  10. The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
  11. The degree of fineness of such a separation.
  12. Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
  13. The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
  14. In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
RES verb
  1. To raise from the dead, to bring life back to.
  2. To restore to a working state.
  3. To bring back to view or attention; reinstate.
RES noun
  1. The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
  2. Bodysnatching
RES noun
  1. A base of Russian espionage operations within a foreign country.

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