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What (who) is Spare - definition
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Spares; Spare (disambiguation); Spares (disambiguation)
spare
v.
1) (C) can you spare a few minutes for me today. or: can you spare me a few minutes today.
2) (O; can be used with one animate object) spare us the details; he wanted to spare you embarrassment
spare
A hanger-on; a useless person who attaches herself to a group but is not so obnoxious that the others will actively try to drive her off. In any sufficiently large group of people, one person will be the spare. To find out who the spare is, ask the question, If we were being chased by Zombies, who would we shoot in the leg so the Zombies would stop to eat him, so that the rest of us could escape?
That's just Craig. Ignore him, he's our spare.
That's just Craig. Ignore him, he's our spare.
spare
(spares, sparing, spared)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use spare to describe something that is the same as things that you are already using, but that you do not need yet and are keeping ready in case another one is needed.
Don't forget to take a few spare batteries...
He could have taken a spare key...
The wagons carried spare ammunition.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
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Spare is also a noun.
Give me the trunk key and I'll get the spare.
N-COUNT
2.
You use spare to describe something that is not being used by anyone, and is therefore available for someone to use.
The spare bedroom is on the second floor...
There was hardly a spare inch of space to be found.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
If you have something such as time, money, or space to spare, you have some extra time, money, or space that you have not used or which you do not need.
You got here with ninety seconds to spare...
It's not as if he has money to spare...
VERB: only to-inf, V, V
4.
If you spare time or another resource for a particular purpose, you make it available for that purpose.
She said that she could only spare 35 minutes for our meeting...
He suggested that his country could not spare the troops for such an operation.
VERB: V n, V n
5.
If a person or a place is spared, they are not harmed, even though other people or places have been. (LITERARY)
We have lost everything, but thank God, our lives have been spared...
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
6.
If you spare someone an unpleasant experience, you prevent them from suffering it.
I wanted to spare Frances the embarrassment of discussing this subject...
She's just trying to spare Shawna's feelings...
VERB: V n n, V n
7.
see also sparing
8.
If you spare a thought for an unfortunate person, you make an effort to think sympathetically about them and their bad luck.
Spare a thought for the nation's shopkeepers-consumer sales slid again in May...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
Examples of use of Spare
1. "We will spare no resource, we will spare no expense.
2. There is no 50% of spare space or 100% spare staff waiting for a crisis.
3. "We will spare no resource, we will spare no expense." Gov.
4. Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry presents Spare Time, an authored documentary about how British people spend their spare time.
5. Mumbai’s floods didn’t spare Bollywood moghuls either.