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