Remainder



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• n. 剩余物
• ［英］ n. 剩余物 ( a remaining group, part, or trace)

Webster Collegiate

I. 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; remaindering)

• Date: 1904
• to dispose of as remainders

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