REMAINDER


Meaning of REMAINDER in English

I. ri-ˈmān-dər noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from remaindre, verb

Date: 14th century

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

II. adjective

Date: 1567

: leftover , remaining

III. transitive verb

( -dered ; re·main·der·ing -d(ə-)riŋ)

Date: 1904

: to dispose of as remainders

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.