From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.

• (RP) IPA: /ɹɪˈmeɪndə/, /ɹəˈmeɪndə/
• (America) IPA: /ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/

remainder (plural remainders)

1. A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.

   My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.

   You can have the remainder of my clothes.

   He spent the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

     Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

2. (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.

   17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.

   11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.

3. (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction

   10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6

4. (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.

   I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.

5. (legal) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined

• (a part or parts remaining) remnant, residue, rest, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• surplus

• (antonym(s) of “a part or parts remaining”): dearth, deficiency, deficit, shortage, undersupply

• French: reste
• German: Rest
• Italian: rimanenza, avanzo, restante, residuo, resto
• Portuguese: resto, sobra, restante, resquício, resíduo
• Russian: оста́ток
• Spanish: resto, remanente, sobras, restante, residuo, resquicio (Lat. Am.), remanente

• French: reste
• German: Rest, Teilungsrest
• Italian: resto
• Portuguese: resto
• Russian: оста́ток
• Spanish: resto

• Italian: resto
• Portuguese: resto, diferença
• Russian: ра́зность
• Spanish: resto

• German: Restposten
• Italian: rimanenza, invenduto
• Russian: оста́ток
• Spanish: saldo

remainder (not comparable)

1. Remaining.

• leftover

remainder (remainders, present participle remaindering; simple past and past participle remaindered)

1. (transitive, commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

   The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.

• German: runtersetzen