Usually means: Extra, unused, available for need.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word spare:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spare: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spare: Merriam-Webster
  3. spare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spare: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spare: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spare, spare: Wordnik
  8. spare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spare: Wiktionary
  10. spare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spare: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spare: Dictionary.com
  14. spare (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spare (bowling), Spare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spare: Rhymezone
  20. spare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spare: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spare: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spare: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. spare: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spare (bowling), spare: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spare (bowling), spare: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPARE: Acronym Finder
  2. spare: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spare, spare, spare, spare: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spare: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Spare: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Spare: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See spareable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
adjective:  Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
adjective:  Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
adjective:  Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
adjective:  Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
adjective:  Not occupied or in current use.
adjective:  Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
adjective:  (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
noun:  The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
noun:  Parsimony; frugal use.
noun:  An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
noun:  That which has not been used or expended.
noun:  A spare part, especially a spare tire.
noun:  A superfluous or second-best person.
noun:  (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
noun:  (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
noun:  (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
noun:  (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
verb:  To show mercy, to have mercy on.
verb:  (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
verb:  (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
verb:  (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
verb:  (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
verb:  To keep.
verb:  (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
verb:  (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
verb:  (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
verb:  (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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