Phr V
leave over
be left over
(
always passive)
if an amount of money or food is left over, it remains when the rest has been used or eatenThere was $10 left over after we'd bought the present so we bought some flowers as well.We had loads of food left over from the party.
leftovers
noun plural food that was prepared for a meal but not eaten
I was eating leftovers from the party for days afterwards.
leftover
adjective (
always before noun)
I made myself a sandwich with some of last night's leftover chicken.If you have any leftover foreign currency (= money that you have not spent), you can exchange it when you get back home.
to exist from an earlier timeSometimes there are snowbanks along the side of the roads, left over from winter.
leftover
noun usually + fromThe powers of the monarchy are a leftover from a bygone age.He looks like a leftover from the 1960's with his long hair and open sandals.