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# spree

«spree» in Mova's school dictionary: **A short time when you do a lot of something you enjoy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a spree, sprees)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A short time when you do a lot of something you enjoy, without holding back: a shopping spree, a spending spree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#m1)

2) A wild time of fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#m2)

3) (serious, news) a spree of crimes means many crimes one after another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

A word for doing too much at once. In everyday life: a shopping spree, a chocolate spree. In The Wind in the Willows Toad goes on a spree of buying motor cars and crashing them. In money lessons a spending spree can empty your savings fast.

### examples

- Mum went on a shopping spree in the sales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#x1)
- He spent all his pocket money in one spree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#x2)
- Toad's motor-car spree ended in court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#x3)
- The kids had a cake-baking spree on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#x4)
- After the spending spree, there was no money left for the bills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#x5)
- The team went on a scoring spree in the second half. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#x6)
- Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spree, en de nex' Monday mawnin' he'd take a fresh start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/#x7)

### note

Countable noun. Usually «go on a spree». In money problems «spree» means spending lots quickly — check how much is left.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spree» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spree/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.