SPREE


Meaning of SPREE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a crime spree (= when one person commits a lot of crimes in a short time )

He was arrested after a two-day crime spree.

a shopping spree (= when you buy a lot of things )

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 )

They murdered fifteen boys in a killing spree across southern California.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

spending

Ian Woodner's wholesale spending spree ended with his death.

The spending spree in the west was mirrored by falling shop sales in east Berlin: almost 20 percent compared with 1989.

With the launch of the single market programme, all have gone on massive spending sprees .

This applies even if one of you, unknown to the other, has gone on a mad spending spree .

But the thief won't be able to use the stolen cards on a spending spree .

Columbia's recent spending spree has partly been paid for by Sony.

Indulging in year-end spending sprees to farce up next year's budgeted expenditure.

The action follows complaints from parents and consumer groups and comes during a £600 million Christmas spending spree on games and hardware.

■ NOUN

crime

He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree .

shopping

Vividly picture going on a wonderful shopping spree , buying everything you have ever dreamt of, with great joy and exuberance.

But looking after five-month-old daughter Atlanta has put a brake on her clothes shopping sprees .

She was on a shopping spree and had bumped into him outside Heal's in Tottenham Court Road.

More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children's world.

We are in the midst of a decade-long shopping spree .

■ VERB

buy

Spark has been on a bit of buying spree over the last year, snapping up Softtechnet in May.

go

With the launch of the single market programme, all have gone on massive spending sprees .

But their lives are shattered when a nutty friend goes on a shooting spree , injuring Luna and killing Wren.

shop

Believing that clothes make the musician, the Cliburn competition rewarded him with a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus.

This is my first shopping spree .

spend

But if the spending spree stays at the same pace, even more money will be needed later.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree .

In contrast Stanley's usually made the inspired calculations of a good invitation side out for a scoring spree .

In the national betting holiday just past, teen-agers were full players in the spree .

Jonathan Dyson started the scoring spree by making a 43-yard reception on the Eagles' second play from scrimmage.

One was a stabbing spree in which 12 cabdrivers got knifed in one week by a lone assailant.

Some stores were bright on reports of an eleventh-hour Christmas buying spree .

Then, against the background of bitter, violent parental quarrels, Chester began a spree of delinquency.

This is my first shopping spree .

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