Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - remainder
Remainder
remainder
n. & v. --n. 1 a part remaining or left over. 2 remaining persons or things. 3 a number left after division or subtraction. 4 the copies of a book left unsold when demand has fallen. 5 Law an interest in an estate that becomes effective in possession only when a prior interest (devised at the same time) ends. --v.tr. dispose of (a remainder of books) at a reduced price. Etymology: ME (in sense 5) f. AF, = OF remaindre: see REMAIN
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from remaindre, verb Date: 14th century 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 remaining group, part, or trace, b. the number left after a subtraction, the final undivided part after division that is less or of lower degree than the divisor, a book sold at a reduced price by the publisher after sales have slowed, II. adjective Date: 1567 leftover, remaining, III. transitive verb (-dered; ~ing) Date: 1904 to dispose of as ~s ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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