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spare English

Meaning spare meaning

What does spare mean?
Definitions in simple English

spare Verb

— If you spare (somebody) something, you make it available even though you don't have much of it. Excuse, me! Can you spare a few minutes to look at this? Can you spare me twenty dollars till the weekend? Sorry, man - I can't spare anything. I need it all for gas. I'm afraid we're too busy to spare anyone to help you right now. — If you have something to spare, you have something extra. She had five minutes to spare before he was due to pick her up. Sorry, no time to spare! Got to go! Bye! She could get it all inside with room to spare. — If you spare somebody something not nice, they don't have to experience it. The phone rang, sparing me from having to give an answer. "But for your information --;" she lifted a silencing, hand. "Spare me the details, will you?" "I'm so upset, I think I'm going to be sick." "Oh, please! Spare me!" — If somebody is spared, they live, even though they were expected to die. The accident took the life of his wife, but spared his son. Please, I beg you, spare him his life! — If you spare no expense, effort, detail, etc., you do everything you can. They spared no expense for their wedding. — If you spare a thought for somebody, you think of them, usually at a time that you are happy, but they are not. — If you spare somebody's feelings, you try not to do or say things that will upset them. She never hid the truth to spare somebody's feelings.

spare Adjective

— A spare part, room, key, etc. is an extra one, one that is not being used. The bags were in the small backseat because the spare tire filled most of the trunk. I've got a spare bedroom. You can stay there. It took a long time to find enough spare parts to put the car back together. — Your spare time is time when you are not working and you can relax or have fun. He spends most of his spare time playing guitar with his friends. — Spare change is coins that are not worth much and that you can give away. I often find spare change lying on the floor. — If something is spare, it is plain and has no decoration. The room was very spare, with only a window, a single chair, and a ceiling light. — A spare person is tall and thin.

spare Noun

— A spare is an extra thing, such as a key, just in case it is needed. Don't worry! I've got a spare in the back room. — A spare is a tire that you keep in your car in case one of the other tires has a problem.

spare

— verb refrain from harming — verb (= give up) give up what is not strictly needed he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey — verb save or relieve from an experience or action I'll spare you from having to apologize formally — adjective (= trim) thin and fit the spare figure of a marathon runner a body kept trim by exercise — adjective (= excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus) more than is needed, desired, or required trying to lose excess weight found some extra change lying on the dresser yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant skills made redundant by technological advance sleeping in the spare room supernumerary ornamentation it was supererogatory of her to gloat delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts surplus cheese distributed to the needy — adjective kept in reserve especially for emergency use a reserve supply of food a spare tire spare parts — adjective (= free) not taken up by scheduled activities a free hour between classes spare time on my hands — verb use frugally or carefully — noun a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls — noun (= fifth wheel) an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle — noun (= spare part) an extra component of a machine or other apparatus — adjective (= plain, unembellished, unornamented) lacking embellishment or ornamentation a plain hair style unembellished white walls functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete — adjective (= bare, scanty) lacking in amplitude or quantity a bare livelihood a scanty harvest a spare diet

Synonyms spare synonyms

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spare English » English

save reserve superfluous extra economize thin lean spare part free bare redundant leave backup surplus scanty leave over frugal conserve unornamented unembellished supernumerary stingy skinny scrawny rescue plain pardon meager lank gaunt fifth wheel excess escape dispense with austere afford yield vacant use carefully unwanted trim thrifty supererogatory stand-by spare tire slim replacement reinforce rawboned provide

Topics spare topics

What do people use spare to talk about?
States Quantity Enough

Extra
States Quantity Enough

Remain, remainder
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Mercy
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Work and occupation Finance Share wealth

Give, donate
States Quantity

More
Social behavior Social activity

Holiday
Social behavior Social activity Holiday

Free time
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Spend
States Quantity

Enough
States Big Thick

Fat person

Conjugation spare conjugation

How do you conjugate spare?

spare · verb

Examples spare examples

How do I use spare in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Can you spare me a few minutes of your valuable time?
Yuriko arranges flowers in her spare time.
Can you spare me a few minutes?
I can not buy spare parts for this car.
What do you do in your spare time?
Could you spare me a few minutes?
We have no spare money.
I think I can do it in my spare time.
I am so busy that I have no time to spare.
I play the guitar in my spare time.
He examined the spare parts one after another.
By the way, do you have any spare batteries?
By the way, did you have any spare time to go sightseeing while you were there?
Can you spare a minute? I'd like to discuss something of importance to both of us.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Can you spare a buck?
Spare me the sympathy.
Could you spare me a little time?
Do you have much time to spare?

Movie subtitles

Please spare me!
Takuan-sama! Please spare me!
Spare him!
Just spare me.
Spare me the wisecracks. Hey, it's me.
Uh, that's just the spare bedroom.
These are my spare habits.
I beg you, spare him!
Please, my lady, spare me the questions about my brother.
Spare the people from a new tyrant and select a worthy king.
I wish to spare King Gunther death in the flames.
Spare my life and I will give you the wonder cap.
Spare my life, O hero, and I will make you the richest king on earth!
I'd like to have dinner with you, Professor - can you spare some bread?
Programs are ready with 30 minutes to spare before showtime.
The lords take us everything - our properties, freedom, lives - we shall not spare them!
If you can spare one of your hands, I would like to say goodbye, too.
I was gonna bring the wife and kiddies. but the grocer couldn't spare another barrel.
Pardon me, could you spare a dime for a cup of coffee?
No. I can't spare one.
Please, sir, spare our lives.
He had my permission to carry out his own experiments in his spare time.
I beg you to spare yourself and the young lady.
Shore leave permitted if and when I can spare you.
Yes, as hostages, of course. We have no time to spare.
Well, there's nothing I can do without any spare parts.
A 20-minute walk, if you can spare me, then eight hours of sleep.
Spare me the wisecracks.
I always carry a spare for emergencies like this.
I live in a spare room down the hall.
If you could spare me.
Darling, I doubt if he could spare the time for tutoring.
And 15 minutes to spare.
He's busy, couldn't spare me much time.
Spare us your jokes.
I THINK SHE CAN SPARE YOU, SIR.
Please, spare me your jokes.
Please spare us with your war.

News and current affairs

How many lives can we spare from heat, starvation, or malaria?
So we would all spare ourselves an awful lot of trouble if McCain's brainchild were buried as quickly as possible.
In plain English: the forecasters underestimated the extent of spare capacity and hence the scope for fiscal expansion to raise output.
And now that France, reeling from the Paris attacks, has declared war on the Islamic State, other European countries are shrugging their shoulders, mumbling condolences, and silently hoping that the conflict will spare them.
But it also harbors some centers of technological excellence, such as the factories that produce important spare parts for Russian military helicopters.
As with AIDS, a few dollars per person of assistance for agriculture each year could spare millions from hunger.
Washington can also press the Saudis, who control virtually all of the world's spare capacity, to keep their output high to contain prices.
In our much more democratic and interconnected world, it is possible that a clear international norm limiting time in power could spare the world from dictatorship and destabilization in the future.
But if there were, what would it say about the FSB's performance so far, under the leadership of Mario Draghi and then of Mark Carney, each of whom did the job in his spare time, while running important central banks?
You attempt a surgical strike: aim at the shooter's head and try to spare the innocents.
Above all, the government must spare no effort in convincing poor Iraqis of the value of democracy and freedom, and how important the constitution is in realizing their aspirations for a better life.
Yet going from one extreme (keeping one's spare cash under the bed) to the other (lending out money one does not have) is to cut out the sensible middle.
The gap between actual and potential GDP is thus a gauge of an economy's spare capacity.
Worse still, Russia's bureaucracy would likely perceive such activity as a threat, and so spare no effort to hinder Russia's businessmen from civilizing themselves.
James Memusi, an accountant, grows mushrooms in a spare bedroom, selling them to nearby hotels and supermarkets.
American journalists also know that the government classifies information mostly to spare it embarrassment, or for expediency, rather than because it has genuine national-security concerns.
But, for now, many investment projects are not yet generating enough income to service their debts (some of them never will), and there is significant spare capacity.
Unresolved, the crisis will spare no one.
Today, instead of cloning people from spare parts - or spare cells, as is the case with reproductive cloning - scientists hope to grow those parts by cloning people.
And it would spare German and other taxpayers from the EU's solvent northern countries from having to fund yet another bailout of a southern member state.
Today, with Iran starved of technology and spare parts for existing equipment, OPEC's second-largest oil producer in 2006 has become a net importer of refined petroleum products.

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