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exercise for the reader

noun

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.

Definitions

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see exercise, for, the, reader.

  2. A matter left to the addressee's judgement to decide.

    • She does not ask to see the dossier on this man before she goes, even though the co-worker has said that he has seen it, etc. The credibility of this conduct is another matter and is left as an exercise for the reader.
    • Moreover, determining what is “passionate,” “artistic,” and “suitable for young children” is left as an exercise for the reader.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exercise for the reader. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA