Spare
adjective
Extra or not being used.
I have some spare time this afternoon
Often appears as...
- spare time
- spare parts
verb
To make available or give something to someone.
Can you spare some money?
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- spare a thought
- spare a moment
verb
To prevent someone from having to experience something unpleasant.
He was spared the embarrassment of having to recount his failures
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- spare someone the trouble
- spare someone the details
adjective
Thin or lean.
He is tall and spare
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- spare body
- spare figure
noun
In bowling, when all the pins are knocked down in two throws.
He got a spare in his first frame
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- score a spare
- make a spare
adjective
Extra or not being used.
I have some spare time this afternoon
Often appears as...
- spare time
- spare parts
verb
To make available or give something to someone.
Can you spare some money?
Often appears as...
- spare a thought
- spare a moment
verb
To prevent someone from having to experience something unpleasant.
He was spared the embarrassment of having to recount his failures
Often appears as...
- spare someone the trouble
- spare someone the details
adjective
Thin or lean.
He is tall and spare
Often appears as...
- spare body
- spare figure
noun
In bowling, when all the pins are knocked down in two throws.
He got a spare in his first frame
Often appears as...
- score a spare
- make a spare
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Availability Indication
Use 'spare' to indicate something is available for use or can be given away without causing shortage.
Do you have a spare charger I could use?
Pro Tip 2/2Not Required
'Spare' implies that the item or time is not currently needed and can be used if necessary.
We have a spare bedroom if you want to stay overnight.
Pro Tip 1/2Availability Indication
Use 'spare' to indicate something is available for use or can be given away without causing shortage.
Do you have a spare charger I could use?
Pro Tip 2/2Not Required
'Spare' implies that the item or time is not currently needed and can be used if necessary.
We have a spare bedroom if you want to stay overnight.
Pro Tip 1/2Availability Indication
Use 'spare' to indicate something is available for use or can be given away without causing shortage.
Do you have a spare charger I could use?
Pro Tip 2/2Not Required
'Spare' implies that the item or time is not currently needed and can be used if necessary.
We have a spare bedroom if you want to stay overnight.
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Why we make bad...
The comparison changes how we evaluate him. Now, retailers knew this long before anybody else did, of course, and they use this wisdom to help you -- spare you the undue burden of money. And so a retailer, if you were to go into a wine shop and you had to buy a bottle of wine,
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Alex Honnold Rappels...
So I do want to do something that protects us. Any spare socks? I mean, I guess you could use my socks. Grab them, there's some of in the bag. You got any spare ones? Yeah, for tonight. There's a lot of abrasion on these wires, little bits of metal sticking up.
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How to outsmart the...
Consider this both agree to spare each other every day. If one ever chooses to sacrifice, the other will retaliate by choosing “sacrifice” for the rest of eternity. So is that enough to get these poor sentient baked goods to agree to cooperate?
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Can you solve the giant...
is guaranteed to get a working result in 7 tries or less, no matter what order you test the piles in. With no time to spare, the iron comes to life, and you manage to get the shirt flawlessly ironed.
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Science can answer moral...
We're not talking about Connecticut. And the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious. The creator of the universe himself has told us not to spare the rod, lest we spoil the child --
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
It's as though we're using them as spare parts to support our fragile sense of self. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us feel less alone. But we're at risk,
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This is what it's like...
and sent students off to the fields to build the DPRK's much-heralded ideal as the world's most powerful and prosperous nation. My students were the only ones spared from that fate.
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A day in the life of a...
The glory of the Empire can go to the crows. All he craves is to retire on a small farm with his wife-to-be, if the gods should spare his life for 17 more years.
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A short musical...
the sky is falling the thought that we were finished was a snowfall forgot the heart of a life spared on my people difficult against me that preparing lose
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Baboon Parenting PIPE Wild...
the deans real-life cheeky monkeys baboons are boisterous playful characters with personality to spare
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Why we make bad...
The comparison changes how we evaluate him. Now, retailers knew this long before anybody else did, of course, and they use this wisdom to help you -- spare you the undue burden of money. And so a retailer, if you were to go into a wine shop and you had to buy a bottle of wine,
Video examples
Alex Honnold Rappels...
So I do want to do something that protects us. Any spare socks? I mean, I guess you could use my socks. Grab them, there's some of in the bag. You got any spare ones? Yeah, for tonight. There's a lot of abrasion on these wires, little bits of metal sticking up.
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How to outsmart the...
Consider this both agree to spare each other every day. If one ever chooses to sacrifice, the other will retaliate by choosing “sacrifice” for the rest of eternity. So is that enough to get these poor sentient baked goods to agree to cooperate?
Video examples
Can you solve the giant...
is guaranteed to get a working result in 7 tries or less, no matter what order you test the piles in. With no time to spare, the iron comes to life, and you manage to get the shirt flawlessly ironed.
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Science can answer moral...
We're not talking about Connecticut. And the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious. The creator of the universe himself has told us not to spare the rod, lest we spoil the child --
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
It's as though we're using them as spare parts to support our fragile sense of self. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us feel less alone. But we're at risk,
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This is what it's like...
and sent students off to the fields to build the DPRK's much-heralded ideal as the world's most powerful and prosperous nation. My students were the only ones spared from that fate.
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A day in the life of a...
The glory of the Empire can go to the crows. All he craves is to retire on a small farm with his wife-to-be, if the gods should spare his life for 17 more years.
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A short musical...
the sky is falling the thought that we were finished was a snowfall forgot the heart of a life spared on my people difficult against me that preparing lose
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Baboon Parenting PIPE Wild...
the deans real-life cheeky monkeys baboons are boisterous playful characters with personality to spare
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Esther McVey
British Politician
I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.
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Simon Sinek
English Author
To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.
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Yusuf Hamied
Indian Scientist
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.
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Gordon Taylor
English Athlete
We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.
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Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.
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Marcel Proust
French Author
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Yair Lapid
Israeli Politician
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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George Farquhar
Irish Dramatist
Spare all I have, and take my life.
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Esther McVey
British Politician
I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.
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Simon Sinek
English Author
To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.
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Yusuf Hamied
Indian Scientist
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.
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Gordon Taylor
English Athlete
We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.
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Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.
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Marcel Proust
French Author
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Yair Lapid
Israeli Politician
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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George Farquhar
Irish Dramatist
Spare all I have, and take my life.
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