spec
Example Sentences
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“The idea is: Okay, we tested it, it’s perfectly good heavy water. It meets spec. We’ll buy a little of this,” U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2016
He does, however, object to the second: "As a name of opprobrium or reprobation; spec. applied to a grasping or extortionate moneylender or usurer, or a trader who drives hard bargains or deals craftily."
From Time Magazine Archive
You can't, just because you happen to be made prefects, haul up seniors and jaw 'em on spec., like a house-master.
From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard
Report to the Indian Commissioner. 33rd Cong., spec. sess.,
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
Report to the Indian Commissioner. 33rd Cong., spec. sess.,
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
