spare wheel

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spare/speə(r)/
adjective
  • 1 additional to what is required for ordinary use.

    ■ not currently in use or occupied.

    ■ (of time) available for leisure.

  • 2 with no excess fat; thin.
  • 3 elegantly simple.
noun
  • 1 an item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out.
  • 2 (in tenpin bowling) an act of knocking down all the pins with two balls.
verb
  • 1 give (something of which one has enough) to (someone).

    ■ make free or available.

  • 2 refrain from killing or harming.

    ■ refrain from inflicting (harm) on (someone): they have been spared the violence.

  • 3 archaic be frugal.
– phrases
go spare Brit. informal become extremely angry or distraught.
spare no expense (or no expense spared) be prepared to pay any amount.
to spare left over.
– derivatives
sparely adverb,
spareness noun.
– origin OE spær ‘not plentiful, meagre’, sparian ‘refrain from injuring or using’, of Gmc origin.
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