Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Remaining as an unused portion or amount.
- noun A remnant or an unused portion.
- noun Food remaining from a previous meal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective not used up; remaining after use of part.
- adjective remaining from a previous meal; -- of food.
- noun An unused part or portion; -- used especially of food remaining uneaten from a previous meal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Remaining ; left behind;extra ; inreserve . - adjective Remaining after a meal is complete or eaten for a later meal or snack.
- noun Something left behind; an
excess orremainder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not used up
- adjective not used up
- noun a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists
Etymologies
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Examples
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By a roadside in Lordsburg a ragged billboard stood; a leftover from the election, it had been affixed with crude, handmade lettering exhorting passersby to “VOTE DEMOCRATIC”.
Quick looks at 2010: AR-01, MO-SEN, & NM-02. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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The whole incubator idea is a sorry leftover from the Internet bubble.
The Challenge to Cut Spending, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Kennewick Man may represent a resurgence of some recessive traits leftover from the Americas 'sundadonty days, or may represent an individual of a heretofore unknown isolated remnant population of sundadonts.
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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The government's been working on an austerity program for months in an effort to plug a huge budget deficit leftover from the global financial crisis.
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PennsylvaniaThe $2.14 million in leftover funding is being awarded to consumers who got on a waiting list for rebates on water heaters, furnaces, and boilers.
Cash for appliances: States reopen programs with unclaimed funds 2010
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The bottom layer, the beef stew, is usually a leftover from the night before.
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I also engaged in leftover salvage to make twice-cooked pasta and a veggie cheese sauce.
and the painted ponies go up and down truepenny 2009
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P.S., note how about 90% of the so-called political commentators and “analysts” on cable TV are right-wing Republicans leftover from the Nixon regime, the Reagan regime and the Bush regimes?
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You can probably trace this to a lot of things at the time: emerging technology and the 3D rat race where everyone is showing off their tech prowess in centimeters and not yards; the assumption leftover from the sparsely-populated 8-bit days that the consumer would spend at least all month with a single game ...
Great Big Bites SVGL 2009
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"That thing was so bad it looked like a leftover from a Sarah Palin Halloween costume," retorts Hadley.
US election results 2010 - as it happened Richard Adams 2010
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