spare wheel
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Also see: wheel
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
sparely adverb,
spareness noun.
– origin OE spær ‘not plentiful, meagre’, sparian ‘refrain from injuring or using’, of Gmc origin.
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