leftover
(Of politics)
[noun]
Synonyms: remnant, oddment, scrap

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I. left‧o‧ver¹ /ˈleftəʊvə $ -oʊvər/ adjective [only before noun]
remaining after all the rest has been used, taken, or eaten:
leftover vegetables
a few pieces of leftover carpet

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II. leftover² noun

1. leftovers [plural] food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal:
Give the leftovers to the dog.

2. [singular] something from an earlier time that still remains, even though it is not really useful or important any more Synonym : hangover
leftover from
The headmaster was a leftover from the Victorian era.

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