Usually means: Difference between two price points.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. spreads: Merriam-Webster
  2. spreads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. spreads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Spreads, spread's, spreads: Wordnik
  5. spreads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. spreads: Wiktionary
  7. spreads: Dictionary.com
  8. spreads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Spreads: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. spreads: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spreads: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. spreads: Legal dictionary
  3. spreads: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spreads: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spreads: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spreads: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spreads: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spread)

verb:  (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
verb:  (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
verb:  (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
verb:  (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
verb:  (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
verb:  (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
verb:  (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
verb:  (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
verb:  To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
noun:  The act of spreading.
noun:  Something that has been spread.
noun:  (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
noun:  An expanse of land.
noun:  A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
noun:  A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
noun:  A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
noun:  (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
noun:  (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
noun:  (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
noun:  An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
noun:  Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
noun:  A numerical difference.
noun:  (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
noun:  (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
noun:  (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
noun:  (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
noun:  (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
noun:  (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
noun:  (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
noun:  (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
noun:  (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
noun:  The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
noun:  Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
noun:  (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
noun:  (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
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