[re.main.der] n [ME, fr. AF, fr. MF remaindre] (14c) 1: 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: a remaining group, part, or trace b (1): the number left after a subtraction (2): the final undivided part after division that is less or of lower degree than the divisor
3: a book sold at a reduced price by the publisher after sales have slowed
[2]remainder adj (1567): leftover, remaining [3]remainder vt -dered ; -der.ing (1904): to dispose of as remainders