REMAINDER

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Traducere în limba română

remainder I. substantiv

1. rest, rămăşiţă, ceea ce rămâne, restanţă.

2. (jur.) drept de moştenire a titlului (spre deosebire de „reversiune”).

3. stoc de cărţi rămase nevândute.

4. (mat.) rest (la o scădere).

remainder II. verb tranzitiv

a vinde la un preţ scăzut (stocul cărţilor rămase nevândute).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Turning at the door, my judge said—Let her stand half-an-hour longer on that stool, and let no one speak to her during the remainder of the day.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Much I remembered, possibly two-thirds of the quatrains, and I managed to piece out the remainder without difficulty.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He told Patty this, but bid her not mind it, and be sure not to say any thing to us about it, for Mrs. Hodges would be cross sometimes, and as long as so many sacks were sold, it did not signify who ate the remainder.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The remainder of Anne's time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days, was spent entirely at the Mansion House; and she had the satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an immediate companion, and as assisting in all those arrangements for the future, which, in Mr and Mrs Musgrove's distressed state of spirits, would have been difficulties.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

The older men had fought against them in the American War, they had fought again for the last ten years, and the dearest wish of their hearts seemed to be that they might be called upon to do the same for the remainder of their days.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought it my part to obey, and, for fear of falling, laid myself at full length upon the handkerchief, with the remainder of which he lapped me up to the head for further security, and in this manner carried me home to his house.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

And he wondered about it, in some broken expressions, several times, in the short remainder of our walk; and only seemed to forget it when the light of fire and candle shone upon us, seated warm and merry, at table.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I therefore hoped they would not treat me as an enemy, since I meant them no harm, but was a poor Yahoo seeking some desolate place where to pass the remainder of his unfortunate life.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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