Meaning & use

remaining

adjective·Everyday

Still present or left after the rest of a group or amount has gone or been used.

See it in a sentence

Divide the remaining cookies evenly between the two waiting children.

Only a handful of the remaining tickets were still available by Friday.

A note on using this word

Remaining is placed before the noun it describes, as in 'remaining time', and rarely stands alone after a verb.

Words with a similar meaning

leftoversurviving

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