spare

IPA: spˈɛr

The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
Parsimony; frugal use.
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
That which has not been used or expended.
A spare part, especially a spare tire.
A superfluous or second-best person.
(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.
(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.
(Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
(Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
A surname transferred from the nickname.

To show mercy, to have mercy on.
(intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
(intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
(transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
(specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
To keep.
(intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
(transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
(transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
(transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
Not occupied or in current use.
Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
(UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.

Examples of "spare" in Sentences

Every dollar you can spare is another dollar closer to victory.
DAVIDSON: You would have to take a spare job -- what they call a spare hand in those days.
III. ii.44 (306, 5) [I would spare] To _spare_ any thing is to _let it go. to quit the possession of it.
In what she called her spare time she was engaged in the endless task of repairing and extending her forlorn little shanties.
She likes the city, the mountains and the sea, says Kriemler, whose designs could be described as spare and have certainly been written about as architectural.
Although we normally have what we call spare buttons, you know, just in case we have those wardrobe malfunction moments, oftentimes these buttons remain spares for a very long time.
The popular arts may come to look more like the rest of the Internet: many labors of love produced quickly and cheaply in spare moments, and a few high-end productions that can be monetized.
Our place began with one low erection, divided by a rough partition into two -- our room and the Morgans '; most of our meals being eaten in the big rustic porch contrived by Morgan in what he called his spare time, and over which ran wildly the most beautiful passion-flower I had ever seen.