residual

5 definitions • 7 examples

remaining after most of something has gone:

The scanner checks travel documents for residual traces of explosives.

I still felt some residual bitterness ten years after my divorce.

a payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work:

He makes $60 million a year from "Seinfeld" residuals alone.

The movie studios had wanted to exclude the Hollywood writers from residuals on its income from digital revenue.

resulting or left from something that was previously present:

Residual oil has to be cleaned up.

remaining after most of something has gone:

It's a great project to work on, and will have residual benefits for years to come.

used to describe an amount of money that is left after some other payments have been made:

The $60,000 to complete the project is to come from residual funds.