Spare

Definition: Spare

Spare

Adjective

1. Thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise".

2. More than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy".

3. Just sufficient; "the library had a spare but efficient look".

4. Not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands".

5. Kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts".

6. Lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet".

Noun

1. An extra component of a machine or other apparatus.

2. An extra car wheel and tire.

3. A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls.

Verb

1. Refrain from harming.

2. Save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally".

3. To give up as not strictly needed: he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey.

4. Use frugally or carefully.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Spare \Spare\, adjective. [Comparative Sparer; superlative Sparest; -- not used in all the senses of the word.]. (references)

Engineering & Technology

Military

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Spare

Avoidance

Verb: abstain, refrain, spare, not attempt; not do; maintain the even tenor of one's way.

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Economy

Adjective: economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious;.

Exemption

Exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve; (forgive); exonerate; (exculpate); save the necessity.

Giving

Furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.

Inaction

Verb: not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive; abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias; rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain; (avoid) keep oneself from doing; remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist; (relinquish); stop; (cease); pause; (be quiet).

Insufficiency

Meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.

Littleness

Adjective: little; small; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short.

Narrowness Thinness

Adjective: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like; (filament); finespun, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded; (expand; ); slender as a thread.

Redundancy

Superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess; over and above; (remainder); de trop; (additional); supernumerary; (reserve); on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Store

Adjective: stored; Verb:; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare, supernumerary.

Temperance

Verb: be temperate; Adjective: abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare,swear off.

Crosswords: Spare

Danish (save, spare).

Two eyes, as often as I can spare them (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Yeah I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Pretty girls make them in their spare time (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes)

Vodka Martini, with ice if you can spare it (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

Sir, can you spare a little change (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

Spare me (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

They plead with you, buddy can you spare the dime (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

He asks a man for what he could spare, with shame in his eyes (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast)

Or should I wait for the lobby, spare the lies (Crowded Elevator(Scream 3 Soundtrack,Make Yourself Import); performing artist: Incubus)

There you sit, sitting spare like a book on a shelf rustin' (Misty mountain hop; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk. (references; author: unknown)

Spare the Rod (1961)

Three Spare Wives (1961)

Make That Spare (1960)

Spare the Child (1954)

Speed to Spare (1948)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Automotive Aftermarket Spare Parts in Saudi Arabia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Aircraft Spare Parts in Indonesia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Aircraft Engines, Spare and Replacement Parts in Switzerland: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Components, Spare Parts and Air Conditioning Equipement in Hong Kong: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• How I Turned $1,000 into Five Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time (reference)

• Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies: From Spare Ribs to Humble Pie-A Lightearted Look at How Food Got Their Names (reference)

• Media Relations in Your Spare Time: A Step-By-Step Guide for Anyone in Business (reference)

• Spare Change (reference)

• Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Spare Change (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Brother Can You Spare a Dime (reference)

• Spare Me (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Spare Dimes for Dust (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• E-10 SPARE AA BATT-HOLDER B-HLD1 (reference)

• Epson Spare Lamp For Elp 3500 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Freud RP-KIT Spare Part Kit For Freud RP1000 Or RP2000 Raised Panel Cutter (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fathometer trace entering Little Port Walter - not much room to spare. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Starboard quarter of a whale-ship Showing the manner of transporting the captain's boat and the spare boats. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Photographed from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, following overhaul, 1 May 1944. This view looks aft along the port side, with the ship's after smokestack at left. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Note gratings around the 20mm gun in lower center; spare 40mm gun barrels on the deck beside the 40mm quad gun mounting in lower left; Mark 34 Gun Director with antenna for a Mark 8 radar and Mark 37 Gun Director with antenna for a Mark 4 radar atop the after superstructure. Credit: NAVY.

Oh not my powder puff -- I can't spare that : but Mars was adamant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brother can you spare a dime?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brother, can you spare a dime?. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Spare room, Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial, Portsmouth, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress.

One of Erasty Emvich's sons weaving a rug in farmhouse near Battle Ground, Indiana. Mr. Emvich, tenant farmer and father of twelve children, also weaves in his spare time. Credit: Library of Congress.

Truck for repairs on spare parts. FSA (Farm Security Administration) warehouse depot. Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

John Adams, residence in Quincy, Massachusetts. Guest chamber or spare room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

What must be done in the case? I answer; the fundamental law of nature being, that all, as much as may be, should be preserved, it follows, that if there be not enough fully to satisfy both, viz, for the conqueror's losses, and children's maintenance, he that hath, and to spare, must remit something of his full satisfaction, and give way to the pressing and preferable title of those who are in danger to perish without it. (Second Treatise of Government)

In addition to the engines installed in the seaplanes or flying boats above mentioned, one spare engine may be provided for each engine of each of these craft. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A rapid dialogue commenced between him and the man with the cudgel, the spare man.

What! Threat you me with telling of the King? Tell him and spare not.

Only Muley Graves prowled about restlessly, looking through the bars into the truck, thumping the spare tires hung on the back of the truck

But his Majesty resolving, if possible, to spare your life, at last brought off the Chamberlain

Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Preventing this damage helps spare some nerve fibers that would otherwise be lost, improving the patient's recovery. (references)

Business

And spare parts for all materials handling equipment and machines. (references)

The majority of defense exports include ammunition and spare parts. (references)

Skoda has a competitive price policy and spare parts at reasonable prices. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

The Taliban purportedly imposed this system of identification to spare non-Muslims from the enforcement of rules mandatory for Muslims and from harassment by agents of the PVSV. The requirement later was suspended, and an identity card was to be issued instead. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

There is a growing market for spare computer parts. (references)

Brazil

During the period 1994 through 2000, spare parts sales increased by 70 percent. (references)

Human Rights

Afghanistan

Another demining organization working in Kandahar reported to Human Rights Watch that Taliban forces confiscated 1 vehicle on September 26, 3 ambulances on October 3, 9 pick-up trucks on October 11, and 22 additional vehicles on October 15. The forces also looted the office of the organization, taking spare parts, generators, radios, and the personal property of organization personnel. (references)

Iraq

In a report released by the U.N. Secretary General on September 13, the U.N. Special Rapporteur criticized the Government for the "sheer number of executions" taking place in the country, the number of "extrajudicial executions on political grounds," and "the absence of a due process of the law." The list of offenses requiring a mandatory death penalty has grown substantially in the past few years and now includes anything that could be characterized as "sabotaging the national economy," including forgery, as well as smuggling cars, spare parts, material, heavy equipment, and machinery. (references)

Political Economy

Eritrea

Principal imports include machinery, spare parts, food, and military material. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Spare parts are always excluded. (references)

Syria

Producers often complain that it may take up to six months to import spare parts. (references)

Burma

Tariffs on most industrial inputs, machinery and spare parts average about 15 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "spare": double spare ♦ drive smb. spare ♦ enough and to spare ♦ go spare ♦ have enough to eat and to spare ♦ have not a moment to spare ♦ kindly spare me! ♦ none to spare ♦ not have a moment to spare ♦ not to spare oneself ♦ pinch and spare ♦ spare anchor ♦ spare bed ♦ spare his blushes! ♦ spare his life ♦ spare hours ♦ spare into ♦ spare me that! ♦ spare me! ♦ spare money ♦ spare my life! ♦ spare neither trouble nor expense ♦ spare no effort ♦ spare no expense ♦ spare no expenses ♦ spare no pains ♦ spare one's life ♦ spare part ♦ spare part surgery ♦ spare parts ♦ spare room ♦ spare smb.'s life ♦ spare the life of ♦ spare the rod spoil the child ♦ spare time ♦ spare tire ♦ spare tyre ♦ spare wheel ♦ spare wheele ♦ To spare one's self ♦ with no time to spare ♦ you might spare me that!. Additional references.

Beginning with "spare": spare-crew, spare-framed, spare-looking, spare-part, spare-parts, Spare-rib, spare-ribs, spare-room, spare-time, spare-time activities, spare-time activity, spare-time occupation, spare-tire.

Ending with "spare": get-out-of-my-way-i-haven't-a-moment-to-spare, money-to-spare, office-cum-spare.

Containing "spare": sewing-room-cum-spare-room.

Afrikaans

spaar (save), bespaar (save). (various references)

Albanian

shpëtoj (bring off, bring through, carry through, creep out, deliver, elude, escape, extricate, flee, get away, get off the hook, get out, get rid, get rid of, heal, preserve, rescue, rid, salvage, save, skip), ruaj (bear, conserve, cure, enshrine, guard, hold, hug, keep, lay up, maintain, police, preserve, protect, put by, reserve, retain, safeguard, save, secure, shield, spin out, tend, ware, watch, watch over), rezervë (backup, cartridge, deposit, distance, emergency, fountain, fund, garment, hoard, leeway, margin, munition, offishness, ordinary, pool, reservation, reserve, resource, stand by, stock, stockpile, store, supply), përmbahem nga, më vjen keq (be sorry, feel, it is a pity, regret, repent, rue, sympathize, take pity), kursej (husband, lay up, put aside, reserve, save, save up, scrimp, store, thrift), i varfër (bad, beggarly, destitute, fortuneless, impecunious, indigent, lame, lazarus, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, miserable, one horse, penurious, poor, squalid, wretched), i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i tepërt (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, over, overabundant, redundant, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping, waste), i tepërm (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, overabundant, redundant, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping, waste), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, sparing, thin, wee), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فائض (excess, overabundant, overflow, overflowing, superabundant, superfluous, surplus), ‏مقتصد (careful, chary, economical, frugal, provident, saving, scant, sparing, thrifty), ‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏قطعة غيار (part, replacement part, spare part), ‏خصص (allocate, allow, appropriate, assign, consign, designate, destine, detail, devote, earmark, give, particularize, specify), ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), ‏إقتصد (economize, eke out, manage, retrench, save, scrimp, sock away), ‏إحتياطي (army reserve, auxiliary, margin, reservoir, standing by), ‏إضافي (additional, ancillary, auxiliary, bonus, extra, false, farther, further, more, overtime, special, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary), ‏إجتنب (shun), ‏رق (melt, serfdom, servitude, slavery, thrall), ‏دخر (enshrine, fund, garner, hoard, husband, lay by, lay up, put aside, put by, reserve, save, set, set apart, set aside, siphon, skimp, sock away, stash, store), ‏دبر (administer, brew, cogitate, concoct, conduct, contrive, devise, engineer, lay, prepare, set), ‏بخيل (avaricious, cheeseparing, mean, miserly, shy, skimpy, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight, tight-fisted), ‏بخل (avarice, littleness, meanness, miserliness, scant, scrimp, skimp, stinginess, stint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), пазя (guard, hoard, invigilate, keep, mind, preserve, protect, screen, treasure up, ward, watch, watch over), пестелив (abstemious, canny, economical, forehanded, frugal, husbandly, near, parsimonious, provident, saving, sparing, thrifty), пестя (husband, nurse, put aside, save), пожалвам (have pity on, show mercy to), пощадявам, излишен (de trop, excrescent, expletive, needless, otiose, pleonastic, redundant, superabundant, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneous, surplus, unnecessary, unwanted, waste), неизползван (unemployed, unused, unutilized, waste), сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, tearless, undamped, uninspired), отслабнал (diminished, lean, peaked, peaky, pinched, pinch-faced, thin, withered), оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin, tight), в повече (extra, over, surplus), щадя, слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), жаля. (various references)

Chinese 

�'恕 (forgiveness), 备�"� (standby), 備�"� (alternate, backup, reserve). (various references)

Czech

sporý (chunky, scanty, scrimpy, stocky, thickset), spořivý (economical, saving, thrifty), zbylý (leave over, residual), vyzáblý (emaciated, gaunt, scraggy, wasted), volný (clear, comfortable, for hire, free, lax, liberal, loose, open, slack, svelte, unattached, unoccupied, unrestrained, vacant), uspořit (save), ušetřit (save), rezervní, postrádat (desiderate, lack, miss), přebyteèný (expletive, redundant, surplus, waste), obejít se bez (dispense with, do without), navíc (above that, extra, moreover, on top of), náhradní (compensatory, standby, substitute), hubený (jejune, lank, lean, slender, slim, stingy, thin), šetrný (considerate, economical, frugal, near, parsimonious, shabby, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Danish

spare (save). (various references)

Dutch

sparen (be lenient with, begrudge, indulge, regret, save), ontzien (be lenient with, begrudge, indulge, regret). (various references)

Esperanto

indulgi (be lenient with, indulge), ŝpari (save). (various references)

Faeroese

spara (save), eira (be lenient with, indulge). (various references)

Farsi 

یدکی (Extra, Refill, Reserve), مضایقه کردن (Begrudge, Stint), مضایقه , نحیف (Frail, Gaunt, Haggard, Lean, Meager, Scant, Scrimp, Skimp, Skimpy, Slight), نازک (Attenuate, Eggshell, Ethereal, Fine, Frail, Gossamer, Slim, Soft, Tenuous), چشم پوشیدن از (Waive), کم حرف (Laconic, Taciturn, Uncommunicative), لاغر (Angular, Gaunt, Lean, Scraggy, Scrannel, Skinny, Slight, Slim, Slink, Thin, Toom, Wizen), ذخیره (Hoard, Reservation, Reserve, Reservoir, Stock, Stockpile, Store), دریغ داشتن (Withhold), درذخیره نگاه داشتن , بخشیدن (Bestow, Betake, Condone, Dispense, Donate, Forgive, Give, Giveaway, Grant, Indulgence, Pardon, Pleasure, Portion, Privilege, Remit, Vouchsafe), برای یدکی نگاه داشتن . (various references)

Finnish

säästää (economize, keep, reserve, save, save up), armahtaa (be lenient with, have mercy, indulge, pardon, pity). (various references)

French

pièce de rechange (spare part), épargner, économiser. (various references)

Frisian

fakânsje (spare time, time off, vacation). (various references)

German

verschonen (be lenient with, exempt, indulge), sparen (conserve, economize, economize on, make savings, save, save up, saving, scrimp, skimp, stint), schonen (be easy on, be lenient with, conserve, go easy on, indulge, look after, nurse, protect, save, take care of), Ersatzteil (replacement part, spare part), übrig (additional, extra, left, left over, odd, over, remaining, rest of). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω χωρίσ (dispense with, do without, go without), γλιστρόσ, ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slab-sided, slender, slim, thin), περισσεύων, περισσεύω, περισσευόμενος, περίσσευμα (excess, overplus, surplus), φείδωμαι, φείδομαι, εξοικονομώ, εφεδρικόσ (stand by), λιτόσ (austere, frugal, terse, thrifty), λιτοδίαιτοσ (frugal), ανταλλακτικό (accessory, spare part), διθέσιμοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

חלק חלוף (spare part), צ� ום (lean, scraggy, skinny, spindly, thin), צמי�' רזרבי, רזרבי (reserve), רז�" (lean, macilent, meagre, peak, peaky, skinny, slender, slim, thin), �"ל (humble, light, meagre, miserable, penurious, poor, scanty), כחוש (gaunt, haggard, lean, macilent, peaky, scraggy, skinny, thin), � וסף (accessive, additional, another, extra, further, more, other, supernumerary, supplementary), חלף (in exchange for, instead of, spare part), מיותר (excrescent, gratuitous, needless, otiose, redundant, superfluous, unnecessary), תחליף (alternative, ersatz, makeshift, replacement, substitute, substitution, surrogate), ל�"שאיר (keep over, leave, leave behind), לחסוך (economize, put away, put by, save, stint, withhold), לחוס (have affection for, pity), לחמול על (be compassionate, be merciful, have pity, pity, take pity), לותר על (concede, dispense with, forego, part with, waive), זעום (inconsiderable, insignificant, meagre, scant, scanty, slender, slight). (various references)

Hungarian

tartalék (auxiliary, backup, cushion, emergency man, loose part, provision, rear echelon, refill, reserve, standby, store). (various references)

Indonesian

senggang, terluang (free, uncovered, vacant), meluangkan (make room for, make time for, vacate), luang (free, vacant). (various references)

Irish

spáráil. (various references)

Italian

scorta (convoy, escort, provision, reservation, stock, stockpile, supply). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

予備装置 (backup unit, reserve equipment), 予備 (preliminaries, preparation, reserve), スプロール現象 (space, space colony, space fantasy, space gun, Space Lab, space opera, space plane, space ship, space shuttle, space telescope, space travel, spacecraft, spaceman, spacing, spade, spare rib, spare seat, spare tire, spear, spectrum analyzer, sprawl, sword). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スペア (spear), よびそうち (backup unit, reserve equipment), よび (preliminaries, preparation, reserve). (various references)

Korean 

여분 (EXTRA). (various references)

Manx

tayrnit (brewed, designed, dragged, drawn, have out, painted, plucked, pulled), spaarail (afford, doing without, economize, save, saving), lhome (arid, bald, bare, fleshless, leafless, meagre, naked, neat, nude, scraggy, severe), lhiggey lesh (abandon, abandonment, comply, concede, concession, connivance, connive, forbear, humour, indulge, indulgence, loosen, loosening, part with, remission, yield), keyl (attenuated, drawn out, fine, gracile, hairline, lanky, lean, narrow, slender, slight, slim, small, tapered, thin, watery, watery of soup, weak, weak as solution, willowy), goan (address, address words, expression, meagre, rare, scant, scarce, short, slender, sparse, thin, thin of hair, tight, tight of money, utterance, word, word speech), fordrail (afford), ford, brash (a good quantity, brace, extra, fit, impetous, increase, paroxysm). (various references)

Norwegian

ferie (holiday, spare time, time off, vacation). (various references)

Papiamen

vakashon (spare time, time off, vacation), fakansi (spare time, time off, vacation). (various references)

Pig Latin

arespay.(various references)

Polish

oszczędzać (save). (various references)

Portuguese

poupar (attract savings, avoid, evade, indulge, keep, lay aside, rescue, save, set by), economizar (economize, husband, lay up, put away, save, set by). (various references)

Romanian

slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), se putea lipsi de, se putea dispensã de, scuti (absolve, disengage, dispense, excuse, exempt, forgive, free, privilege, release, relieve, remit, save), ierta (absolve, acquit, allow, apologize, condone, excuse, forgive, pardon, permit, remise, remit, shrive), abandona (abandon, break off an engagement, deliver up, desert, desolate, drop, expose, forsake, leave, part with, quit, relent, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, shelve, throw), şovãi (back, boggle, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, linger, pause, shilly shally, shuffle, stagger, vacillate, waver), ceda (assign, bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, give way, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, slack, submit, surrender, yield), cruţa (give quarter), de rezervã, disponibil (available, disposable, undisposed, vacant), evita (avoid, balk, baulk, berth, by pass, clear, dodge, elide, elude, escape, eschew, evade, finesse, fly, forbear, keep from, Parry, pass off, put off, save, shun), face economii (economize, retrench, scrape together, scrape up, screw), întrebuinţa cu chibzuialã, frugal (frugal, sparing, thrifty), uscãţiv (lean, scraggy, thin, wizened), menaja (coddle), milui, neîndestulãtor (inadequate, insufficient, reduced, scant, scarce, slender, small), precupeţi, renunţa la (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, cast aside, chuck up, declare off, deny, disclaim, doff, drop, forgo, forsake, give over, lay down, part with, remise, renounce, resign, sacrifice, shunt, sink, surrender, throw up, yield up), fi econom (pinch). (various references)

Russian 

уделять;избавлять запас свободный, уделять, уделить (give), скудный (bare, barren, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hungry, jimp, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, sparing, thin, tight), экономить (economize, retrench, save, skimp, thrift), свободный (at liberty, clear, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, free-hand, immune, leisurely, loose, open, quit, roomy, unbound, unhampered, uninhibited, unoccupied, unstuck, vacant), щадить (respect), худой (lathy, lean, liny, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, skinny, thin), запасной (duplicate, relief, reserve, reserved, stand by), лишний (excess, extra, odd, unnecessary, unwanted, waste), избавлять (deliver, disembarrass, get rid, release, rid, save). (various references)

Scottish

sòr (give unwillingly, grudge, hesitate), coigil, caomhain (reserve, save). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suvonjav (lank, lean, slim), suvišan (excessive, redundant, surplus), slobodan (footloose, free, indipendent, leisure, leisured, liberal, off, open, promiscuous, sightly, through, unconstrained), rezervni deo (spare part), rezervni (alternate, pool, reserve, standby, variant), redak (infrequent, rare, scarce, sparse, thin), poštedeti, oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, penurious, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, sparing, stingy, stringent, tight), odvojiti (break off, detach, disconnect, divide, ease off, mark out, segregate, separate, set off, sever, sort, uncouple), izlišan (redundant, superfluous, unnecessary), žaliti (bewail, deplore, kick, lament, mourn, regret, rue), štedeti (economize, husband, save, save up). (various references)

Spanish

sobrante (else, explanatory, left over, odd, over, surplus, waste), tener de sobra, pieza de recambio (spare part), perdonar (absolve, condone, excuse, forgive, let off, pardon, remit), pasarse sin (do without, go without), para convidados, libre (disengaged, exempt, free, idle, leisure, loose, off duty, open, quit, unattached, unchecked, unoccupied, vacant, vacationist), excusar (apologize, avoid, excuse, exempt, prevent), evitar (avert, avoid, balk, baulk, bypass, circumvent, elude, escape, eschew, evade, exclude, guard against, keep away, obviate, preclude, prevent, provide, save, shirk, shut out, sidestep, stave off, ward off), escatimar (be sparing off, curtail, cut down, give grudgingly, grudge, pinch, scant, scrimp, skimp, stint), enjuto (dried up, dry, fatless, lean, shrivelled up, skinny), economizar (be miserly, economize, husband, nickel and dime, pinch, retrench, scrape, skimp), disponible (available, disposable, forthcoming, free, on call, prompt, ready, unattached, unoccupied, vacant), de repuesto (extra), ahorrar (hang, husband, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay up, put aside, put away, put by, save, save up, set by). (various references)

Swahili

kipande (bit, fragment, lump, part, piece, share, spare part). (various references)

Swedish

spara (conserve, economize, lay aside, lay by, lay up, put aside, save, save up, saving, scrape, scrimp), skona (Favor, favour), reservdel (part, spare part, spare-part), bespara (save), avvara. (various references)

Turkish

sıska (gaunt, lank, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy), hasis (costive, hard-fisted, mean, parsimonious, rapacious, Scrooge, stingy, vile), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, sna