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Verb
/riˈmāndər/,
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remainders, plural;
  1. Dispose of (a book left unsold) at a reduced price
    • - titles are being remaindered increasingly quickly to save on overheads
Noun
  1. A part, number, or quantity that is left over
    • - leave a few mushrooms for garnish and slice the remainder
  2. A part that is still to come
    • - the remainder of the year
  3. The number that is left over in a division in which one quantity does not exactly divide another
    • - 23 divided by 3 is 7, remainder 2
  4. A copy of a book left unsold when demand has fallen

  5. An interest in an estate that becomes effective in possession only when a prior interest (devised at the same time) ends

  1. sell cheaply as remainders; "The publisher remaindered the books"
  2. something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
  3. the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
  4. the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
  5. end: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
  6. In arithmetic, the remainder is the amount "left over" after the division of two integers which cannot be expressed with an integer quotient.
  7. A remainder in property law is a future interest given to a person (who is referred to as the transferree or remainderman) that is capable of becoming possessory upon the natural end of a prior estate created by the same instrument. ...
  8. One Beat is the sixth studio album by American riot grrrl band Sleater-Kinney. Produced by John Goodmanson, the album was recorded between March and April 2002 at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon. It was released on 20 August 2002 on Kill Rock Stars. ...
  9. (Remaindering) Remaindered books are books that are no longer selling well and whose remaining unsold copies are being liquidated by the publisher at greatly reduced prices. ...
  10. (Remaindered) excess stock of printed unsold books that can be sold at discounted prices.
  11. (remaindering) The selling off of the remaining stock of a book, usually at a huge discount, after sales decrease or cease.
  12. (remainders) After dividing one number by another, if any amount is left that does not divide evenly, that amount is called the remainder. For example, when 8 is divided by 3, three goes into eight twice (making 6), and the remainder is 2. ...
  13. (Remainders) Leftover stocks of books that are sold at deep discounts when sales fall dramatically or stop altogether. Authors usually receive no royalties on remaindered books but can purchase copies at the remainder price.
  14. (Remainders) Stamps sold in bulk by the postal authority after the issue has been withdrawn from use.
  15. (Remainders) Stocks of stamps remaining unsold at the time that an issue is declared obsolete by a post office. Some countries have sold remainders to the stamp trade at substantial discounts from face value. The countries normally mark the stamps with a distinctive cancel. ...
  16. (Remainders) a collection of stamps in which the most valuable or most desirable items have been removed
  17. (Remainders) leftover original notes which were not put in to the circulation. Usually without signatures, numbers or date.
  18. (remainders) Unsold book stock. Remainders can include titles that have not sold as well as anticipated, in addition to unsold copies of later printings of bestsellers. ...
  19. A new book returned to the publisher as unsold, then re-marketed at a much lower price.
  20. The future interest in an estate which takes effect after the termination of another estate, such as a life estate; what is left at the termination of a life estate.
  21. a book which has been returned to the publisher unsold. Most often marked on the edge to denote being returned.
  22. Publications that are discounted from the inventory of the publisher because of overprinting, sluggish sales, or outdated material. ...
  23. Books that are returned to the publisher after not having sold, often offered for later sale at a discounted price.
  24. The interest in property that will be received by the remainderman after the interest of someone with a life estate or term of years has expired.
  25. A rule for constructive gifts that allows for escaping the rule against perpetuities. If one member of a group satisfies a requirement for vesting at the time the gift takes effect then the class closes on whoever is alive at the time.