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to spare

to spare phrase: left over; available.

Phrase

to spare

  1. Left over; available.
    • I made it to my appointment with time to spare.
    • As a result of this winter's diversions, there is now carriage siding accommodation to spare at Wolverhampton High Level, and facilities have been offered to stable W.R. stock if necessary, as indeed it may be during the peak months of the summer service.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99
  2. (idiomatic) In abundance.
    • She has talent to spare!

to spare meaning in Malayalam

to spare in Malayalam

remaining, left (over), unused
മിച്ചം വന്ന, ബാക്കിയായ, ശേഷിക്കുന്ന, വേണ്ടാത്ത, അവശിഷ്ടമായ, സാവിശേഷ

Questions about to spare

What does to spare mean?
To spare means left over; available.
What is to spare in Malayalam?
To spare in Malayalam is മിച്ചം വന്ന, ബാക്കിയായ, ശേഷിക്കുന്ന. See To spare meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is to spare?
To spare is a phrase.

Words near to spare in the dictionary

  1. to some extent
  2. to someone's credit
  3. to someone's face
  4. to someone's liking
  5. to someone's taste
  6. to spare
  7. to speak of
  8. to start off with
  9. to start with
  10. to taste
  11. to tell the truth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to spare (page history and authors); to spare (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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