Definition

1. Noun:

   • A remaining part, portion, or number: The part of something that is left after other parts have been removed, used, or dealt with.
   • Mathematics: In arithmetic, the amount left over after division when one number does not divide another exactly.
   • Law: A future interest in an estate that becomes effective upon the termination of a prior interest (e.g., a life estate).
   • Commerce: An unsold item, especially a book, sold at a reduced price.

2. Verb:

   • To sell (items, especially books) as remainders: To dispose of surplus stock at a greatly reduced price.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • She ate half the pizza and saved the remainder for lunch.
  • When 10 is divided by 3, the quotient is 3 and the remainder is 1.
  • The library sold off last year's calendars as remainders.

• Verb:

  • The publisher remaindered the unsold copies of the novel.

Advanced Usage

• "The remainder of": A common phrase used to refer to the rest of something.

  • He spent the remainder of the day reading.

• In legal context: Refers to an interest in property that passes to a designated party after a prior estate ends.

  • The will granted the house to his wife for life, with the remainder to his children.

Variants and Related Words

• Remaining (adj): Still existing, present, or left over.

  • The remaining cookies are in the jar.

• Remains (n): The parts left over after other parts have been removed, used, or destroyed; often used for historical or physical fragments.

  • The remains of an ancient city.

Synonyms

• Rest: What is left after everything else has been used or taken.
• Balance: The remainder or what is left over, often in a financial context.
• Surplus: An amount that exceeds what is needed or used.
• Residue: A small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken.

Related Phrases

• Leave a remainder: (Mathematics) To result in an amount left over after division.
  • Twenty divided by six leaves a remainder of two.

Idioms

• The remainder of one's days/life: The rest of one's life.
  • He wished to live in peace for the remainder of his days.

Noun

1. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
2. the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
3. the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
4. something left after other parts have been taken away
   • there was no remainder
   • he threw away the rest
   • he took what he wanted and I got the balance

Verb

1. sell cheaply as remainders
   • The publisher remaindered the books