spare cash

collocation in English

meaningsofspareandcash

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spare
adjective
uk
/speər/us
/sper/
If something is spare, it is available to use because it ...
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cash
noun[U]
uk
/kæʃ/us
/kæʃ/
money in the form of notes and coins, rather than cheques or ...
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(Definition ofspareandcashfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspare cash

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Instead, farmers used their retirement funds, business profits andsparecashto pay for their farms.
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Couples earning less than £13,000 are also unlikely to have muchsparecashto spend on them.
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If an authority has not got thesparecashto match that funding, it has to take it out of the already allocated schools budget.
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If there is anysparecashin the education budget, that is where it should go, which is where it is needed.
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This is a very sensitive question, because no existing body representing the disabled has anysparecash.
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If there is anysparecash, they have ample services on which they can spend it.
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However, the person involved has not one farthing ofsparecash.
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Also, they are unlikely to have anysparecashto allow them to compensate for their personal disabilities by enlisting the help of non-statutory services.
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They could use theirsparecashfor much more injurious things than merely sitting by even an expensive television set.
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The time has gone when the scientist can carry on in a back-yard with home-made apparatus purchased out of his ownsparecash.
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A large number of our primary schools havesparecashand capacity.
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If they have so muchsparecash, they should give £1 million to our hard-pressed local authorities.
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Our ability to implement, to give effect to, these opportunities depends upon cash—andsparecashis just what we lack.
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Many pensioners have littlesparecash; indeed, they are often on fixed incomes.
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We all know what it means when a man with no occupation and somesparecashforms the habit of visiting public-houses.
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The nation has to pay for them either out of taxes or out of thesparecashin the pockets of its citizens.
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How can she do that and look after her own house and family, probably with no domestic help and very little, if any,sparecash?
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The average working man has not enoughsparecashto spend a lot on betting and racing.
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A great many people do not have bank accounts or anysparecash.
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