remaindernoun
uk/rɪˈmeɪn.dər/us/rɪˈmeɪn.dɚ/remainder noun (PART LEFT)
the remainder [ S ]
the part of something that is left after the other parts have gone, been used, or been taken away:
I ate most of it and gave the remainder to the dog.
It rained the first day but the remainder of the trip was fine.
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Things remaining
- (and) all the rest idiom
- balance
- bastion
- cutpiece
- deposit
- dregs
- for the rest idiom
- ground
- relic
- remains
- remnant
- residual
- residue
- rest
- ruin
- rump
- throwback
- time capsule
- vestige
- wreckage
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remainder noun (MATHEMATICS)
[ U ] specialized mathematics in mathematics, the amount that is left when one number cannot be exactly divided by another:
9 divided by 4 is 2, remainder 1.
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Terms for numbers
- additive inverse
- aliquot
- common denominator
- common factor
- common multiple
- cos
- fivefold
- fold
- fortyfold
- fourfold
- GCF
- hundredfold
- odd
- recurring number
- resultant
- root
- sevenfold
- seventyfold
- sixfold
- weighting
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remainderverb [ T ]
uk/rɪˈmeɪn.dər/us/rɪˈmeɪn.dɚ/to sell a book cheaply because it has not sold well and no more copies of it will be produced:
His autobiography never sold very well and was soon remaindered.
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- package
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
- upsell
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