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[speə] 1. verb1) (to manage without: No-one can be spared from this office.) iztikt bez2) (to afford or set aside for a purpose: I can't spare the time for a holiday.) atļauties; atlicināt3) (to treat with mercy; to avoid injuring etc: `Spare us!' they begged.) []žēlot; apžēlot4) (to avoid causing grief, trouble etc to (a person): Break the news gently in order to spare her as much as possible.) []žēlot; pasargāt (no raizēm u.tml.)5) (to avoid using, spending etc: He spared no expense in his desire to help us.) taupīt6) (to avoid troubling (a person with something); to save (a person trouble etc): I answered the letter myself in order to spare you the bother.) aiztaupīt (pūles u.tml.)2. adjective1) (extra; not actually being used: We haven't a spare (bed) room for guests in our house.) rezerves-; lieks; papildu-2) ((of time etc) free for leisure etc: What do you do in your spare time?) brīvs (laiks)3. noun1) (a spare part (for a car etc): They sell spares at that garage.) rezerves daļas2) (an extra wheel etc, kept for emergencies.) rezerves ritenis•- sparing- sparingly
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- to spare* * *rezerves daļa; rezerves riepa; rezerves spēlētājs; taupīt; atlicināt; aiztaupīt, pasargāt; atturēties; rezerves, lieks; nabadzīgs, trūcīgs; kalsns, vājš
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no expense spared — ► spare no expense (or no expense spared) be prepared to pay any amount. Main Entry: ↑spare … English terms dictionary
spare no expense (or no expense spared) — be prepared to pay any amount. → spare … English new terms dictionary
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expense — noun 1 cost/money spent on sth ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, great, huge, significant, vast ▪ added, additional, extra … Collocations dictionary
expense — /Ik spens/ noun (C, U) 1 the amount of money that you have to spend on something: household/medical/living etc expenses (=the money that you spend for a particular purpose): The students share all the household expenses. | go to great expense… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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spare no expense — ► spare no expense (or no expense spared) be prepared to pay any amount. Main Entry: ↑spare … English terms dictionary
no expense is spared — if no expense is spared in arranging something, a lot of money is spent to make it extremely good. No expense was spared in making the guests feel comfortable … New idioms dictionary
spare no expense — ► to spend a lot of money in order to make something extremely good: »No expense was spared in redesigning the chairman s office. Main Entry: ↑expense … Financial and business terms
spare no expense — to not consider the cost of something. The team spared no expense in hiring players last year. Related vocabulary: spare no effort to do something … New idioms dictionary
