Main Entry:

¹re·main·der

Pronunciation:

\ri-ˈmān-dər\

Function:

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 instrument2 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 divisor3: a book sold at a reduced price by the publisher after sales have slowed