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Definition of rest 1 in English English dictionary
- vagueness You can add and the rest or all the rest of it to the end of a statement or list when you want to refer in a vague way to other things that are associated with the ones you have already mentioned. a man with nice clothes, a Range Rover and the rest
- The rest is used to refer to all the parts of something or all the things in a group that remain or that you have not already mentioned. It was an experience I will treasure for the rest of my life He was unable to travel to Barcelona with the rest of the team. Rest is also a pronoun. Only 55 per cent of the raw material is canned. The rest is thrown away