remainder
nounUK /rɪˈmeɪndə/
US /rɪˈmeɪndər/
The remainder is what is left after you take some away.
If you have 10 cookies and eat 3, the remainder is 7.
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2. In math, the number left over after division when one number does not divide evenly into another.
When you divide 17 by 5, the answer is 3 with a remainder of 2.
3. A remaining part of something, especially a book or quantity of goods sold at a reduced price.
The bookstore sold the remainder of the old editions at half price.
4. To sell off the remaining copies of a book or goods at a reduced price.
The publisher decided to remainder the unsold copies.