REMAINDER

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from remaindre, verb Date: 14th century an interest or estate in property that follows and is dependent on the termination of a prior intervening possessory estate created at the same time by the same instrument, 2. a remaining group, part, or trace, b. the number left after a subtraction, the final undivided part after division that is less or of lower degree than the divisor, a book sold at a reduced price by the publisher after sales have slowed, II. adjective Date: 1567 leftover , remaining, III. transitive verb (-dered; ~ing) Date: 1904 to dispose of as ~s