noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crime spree (= when one person commits a lot of crimes in a short time )
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He was arrested after a two-day crime spree.
a shopping spree (= when you buy a lot of things )
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He admits to going on a shopping spree with someone else's credit card.
killing spree (= an occasion when someone murders many people in a short period of time )
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They murdered fifteen boys in a killing spree across southern California.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
spending
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Ian Woodner's wholesale spending spree ended with his death.
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The spending spree in the west was mirrored by falling shop sales in east Berlin: almost 20 percent compared with 1989.
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With the launch of the single market programme, all have gone on massive spending sprees .
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This applies even if one of you, unknown to the other, has gone on a mad spending spree .
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But the thief won't be able to use the stolen cards on a spending spree .
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Columbia's recent spending spree has partly been paid for by Sony.
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Indulging in year-end spending sprees to farce up next year's budgeted expenditure.
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The action follows complaints from parents and consumer groups and comes during a £600 million Christmas spending spree on games and hardware.
■ NOUN
crime
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He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree .
shopping
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Vividly picture going on a wonderful shopping spree , buying everything you have ever dreamt of, with great joy and exuberance.
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But looking after five-month-old daughter Atlanta has put a brake on her clothes shopping sprees .
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She was on a shopping spree and had bumped into him outside Heal's in Tottenham Court Road.
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More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children's world.
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We are in the midst of a decade-long shopping spree .
■ VERB
buy
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Spark has been on a bit of buying spree over the last year, snapping up Softtechnet in May.
go
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With the launch of the single market programme, all have gone on massive spending sprees .
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But their lives are shattered when a nutty friend goes on a shooting spree , injuring Luna and killing Wren.
shop
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Believing that clothes make the musician, the Cliburn competition rewarded him with a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus.
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This is my first shopping spree .
spend
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But if the spending spree stays at the same pace, even more money will be needed later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree .
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In contrast Stanley's usually made the inspired calculations of a good invitation side out for a scoring spree .
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In the national betting holiday just past, teen-agers were full players in the spree .
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Jonathan Dyson started the scoring spree by making a 43-yard reception on the Eagles' second play from scrimmage.
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One was a stabbing spree in which 12 cabdrivers got knifed in one week by a lone assailant.
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Some stores were bright on reports of an eleventh-hour Christmas buying spree .
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Then, against the background of bitter, violent parental quarrels, Chester began a spree of delinquency.
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This is my first shopping spree .