spent force
spent force noun: a person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust.
Noun
spent force (plural spent forces)
- A person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust.
- Evolution was not a spent force, but one still working.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- I am a ruin, a spent force, a man without a future!1921, P. G. Wodehouse, The Girl on the Boat (U.S.: Three Men and a Maid), ch. 2
Examples of spent force in a sentence
- Without his notes, as he calls them, he's a spent force.” [...] In stating that the Woosters never give up, I was in error.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “II AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power.2008 June 17, Catherine Mayer, “Leaving Europe, Bush Eyes Legacy”, in Time:
Forms of spent force
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Questions about spent force
- What does spent force mean?
- Spent force means a person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust.
- How do you use spent force in a sentence?
- Without his notes, as he calls them, he's a spent force.” [...] In stating that the Woosters never give up, I was in error.
- What part of speech is spent force?
- Spent force is a noun.
- What is the plural of spent force?
- The plural of spent force is spent forces.
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