English Explanatory Dictionary

exercise for the reader

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see exercise, for, the, reader.
  2. A matter left to the addressee's judgement to decide.

Word forms

exercise for the reader exercises for the reader

Etymology

From academic writing. One of the first known recorded occurrences of this phrase is in An Elementary Course of Mathematics by Thomas Stephens Davies, Stephen Fenwick, and William Rutherford from 1853.

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