Usually means: Remnants or remains left behind.
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  1. leavings: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leavings: Merriam-Webster
  3. leavings: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leavings: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leavings: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leavings: Vocabulary.com
  7. Leavings, leavings: Wordnik
  8. leavings: Wiktionary
  9. leavings: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leavings: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Leavings, leavings: Dictionary.com
  12. Leavings: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. leavings: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Leavings: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. leavings: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. leavings: FreeDictionary.org
  17. leavings: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leavings: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leavings: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (leavings)

▸ noun:  A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.

Similar:
departure, going, going away, lopping, scrap, table scrap, scrapwood, scrag end, erasings, chaff, more...

Opposite:
remainder, balance, leftovers, residue

Types:
dregs, residue, remains, debris, rubble, wreckage, more...

Phrases:
leavings of wood, more...

Adjectives:
other, such, poor, own, personal, routed, few, very, mere, human, cold



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Similar:
departure, going, going away, lopping, scrap, table scrap, scrapwood, scrag end, erasings, chaff, more...

Opposite:
remainder, balance, leftovers, residue

Types:
dregs, residue, remains, debris, rubble, wreckage, more...

Phrases:
leavings of wood, more...

Adjectives:
other, such, poor, own, personal, routed, few, very, mere, human, cold



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