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spent forces

spent forces is the plural of spent force.

Meaning of spent force

Noun

spent force (plural spent forces)

  1. 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

Questions about spent forces

What is spent forces the plural of?
Spent forces is the plural of spent force.

Words near spent forces in the dictionary

  1. spensive
  2. Spensonian
  3. spent
  4. spent a penny
  5. spent force
  6. spent forces
  7. spent good money after bad
  8. spent money like water
  9. spent time
  10. spentest
  11. Speo

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