remainder

1. 1.

   sell cheaply as remainders

   “The publisher remaindered the books”

   Broadersell

   commerce

Other forms of remainder

plural

remainders·

past tense

remainderred·

present participle

remainderring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about remainder

What does remainder mean?

remainder means "something left after other parts have been taken away". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remainder?

remainder has 3 syllables: re-main-der. The stress falls on "main". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈmeɪndɚ/.

What is another word for remainder?

Close synonyms include balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is remainder a common word?

remainder is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.