单词 | remaindered |
释义 | remainderedadj. Of a book or other item for sale: that has been remaindered; sold at a reduced price owing to a fall in demand. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [adjective] > worst-selling or unsold worst-selling1883 remaindered1904 1904 Heffer & Sons' Catal. 2 As the History of ‘Remaindered’ Books would almost prove, it might be said that no Book was really great until it had been ‘Remaindered’. 1955 R. Bradbury October Country 298 John Oatis Kendall..traded a few old clothes and some remaindered copies of his books for a gun. 1962 Times 26 Mar. 13 Next year there might be too many [toy cats]. One might even get a remaindered one for sixpence. 1986 J. Batten Judges 32 After ten minutes of flipping through the albums, he pulled out a remaindered record by Johnny Hodges and Charlie Shavers. 2003 E. Schlosser Reefer Madness iii. 117 A sex magazine produced at least twenty times the revenue per copy of a remaindered comic book. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1904 |
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