RESIDUARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does residuary mean? 

• RESIDUARY (adjective)
  The adjective RESIDUARY has 2 senses:

1. entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts)

2. relating to or indicating a remainder

  Familiarity information: RESIDUARY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDUARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the residuary beneficiary

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Pertainym:

residuum (something left after other parts have been taken away)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or indicating a remainder

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

residual; residuary

Context example:

residual quantity

Pertainym:

residue (matter that remains after something has been removed)

Derivation:

residue (something left after other parts have been taken away)

residue (matter that remains after something has been removed)

 Context examples 

All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)