remainder
/rɪˈmeɪndər/
verb
- To sell (a book) at a reduced price because it is no longer selling well.
- The publisher decided to remainder the unsold copies of the novel.
- After poor sales, the company remaindered the entire print run.
- Many first editions were remaindered and later became valuable.
noun
- The part of something that is left after the rest has been used, removed, or dealt with.
- She ate half the pizza and saved the remainder for lunch tomorrow.
- The remainder of the class will finish the project next week.
- After paying the bills, the remainder of his salary went into savings.
- In mathematics, the amount left over when one number cannot be divided exactly by another.
- The teacher asked the students to find the remainder of 23 divided by 4.
- In the division problem 100 ÷ 7, the remainder is 2.
- When you divide 17 by 5, the quotient is 3 and the remainder is 2.
- A book that is sold at a reduced price because it has not been sold and is no longer in high demand.
- He bought several remainders from the publisher's clearance sale.
- The bookstore had a table full of remainders marked down to five dollars.
- Many remainders end up in discount stores or online bargain bins.