royalty(PAYMENT)
Reagan won the right of actors to residuals when their films were shown on television.
Actors held out for residuals, repeat payments made every time a commercial is shown.
A cruel irony of bankruptcy law is that courts regard future residuals as assets.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Earning money
assessable
bank
base pay
basic
basic income
disposable income
hand over fistidiom
in arrearsidiom
line your pocket(s)idiom
livelihood
make an honest livingidiom
performance-related
pro bono
pro rata
profit from something
prorate
pull
raise
revenue
sick pay

residual | American Dictionary

residual
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/rɪˈzɪdʒ·u·əl/
resulting or left from something that was previously present:
Residual oil has to be cleaned up.

residual | Business English

residual
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /rɪˈzɪdjuəl/us
remaining after most of something has gone:
It's a great project to work on, and will have residual benefits for years to come.
ACCOUNTING
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.

Examples of residual

residual
In 1997, a rice crop was grown without any treatment application to test for residual effects.
Because the cat has large receptive fields, these residual movements will seldom be consequential for visual physiology.
A part of the correlation must, however, be attributed to prodromal and residual symptoms before and after re-hospitalization.
Patients may find it difficult to judge when residual symptoms become prodromal symptoms.
Some aging properties of the residual life of k-out-of-n systems.
These dynamic features will ultimately relate to the outcome of a residual leak.
The patient wanted to know what additional systemic therapy was needed in view of her residual disease at the time of mastectomy.
In order to study a possible association between residual variation and additive genetic values, the following discrepancy statistics are constructed.
Next, we enter the residuals from the economic expectation models (without the error correction mechanism) in the approval models.
These assays can also be used for monitoring the filarial elimination programme and for conducting surveillance for residual transmission.
Very crudely, the egalitarian will have to tax and redistribute earned incomes in some form in order to correct for the residual inequality of talents.
Reoperation for significant residual regurgitation across the left atrioventricular valve continues to be the major cause for morbidity, both early and late.
The atrioventricular septal defect had been effectively repaired, and the residual left atrioventricular valve had a deep "cleft" in its septal aspect.
In any case, for comparability with previous years, social assistance transfers must still be grouped within this residual category.
Results are expressed as the percentage of residual activity of the enzyme against the concentration of the inhibitor.
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