0 past simple and past participle of remain
1 to stay in the same place or in the same condition:
Most commentators expect the basic rate of tax to remain at 25 percent.
[ + to infinitive ] A great many things remain to be done (= have not yet been done).
He remained silent.
It remains a secret.
The bank will remain open while renovations are carried out.
Only a few hundred of these animals remain today.
For reasons of personal safety, the informant wishes to remain anonymous.
We have to invest in new technology if we are to remain competitive.
The truth about the accident remains hidden beneath a shroud of secrecy.
Here they remained three or four days, getting or taking over 40 steers per diem.
They remained with us two or three days, consuming over 60 steers per diem.
This policy remained in force for three hundred years.
