remainder
/ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it remainders · Past remaindered · Past participle remaindered · -ing form remaindering
Verb forms
- Base form
- remainder
- He/she/it
- remainders
- Past
- remaindered
- Past participle
- remaindered
- -ing form
- remaindering
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If your daughter had committed only one crime, and I saw her meditating another, I would say ‘Warn her, punish her, let her pass the remainder of her life in a convent, weeping and praying.’ If she had committed two crimes, I would say, ‘Here, M.
Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but, as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.
He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.
I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence.
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