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spare time



Definitions

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spare time
     1. n. Free time.
Analysis
spare
     1. adj. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
           a spare diet
     2. adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
     3. adj. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
           I have no spare time.
time
     1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
           Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow of time
     2. n.          (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
                   Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
     3. n.          (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.

Example Sentences

I mean, what do you do with all your spare time



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