noun

1. those remaining
2. what is left when a part is taken away; the rest
3. a copy or number of copies of a book still held by a publisher when the sale has fallen off, usually disposed of at a greatly reduced price
4. Law an estate of expectancy but not in possession, as when land is conveyed by the same deed to one person while alive and at death to another and that person's heirs
5. Math.
   1. what is left when a smaller number is subtracted from a larger
   2. what is left undivided when one number is divided by another that is not one of its factors

Etymology: ME remaindre < Anglo-Fr substantive use of OFr inf.: see remain

adjective

transitive verb