He spent all his working life in a factory.spent1 spent2 adjective
spentspent1 /spent/ 
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He spent all his working life in a factory.
the past tense and past participle of spend He spent all his working life in a factory.spent1 spent2 adjective
spentspent2 adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Spent bullet shells littered the ground.
- Couldn't tell unless I went back to look for spent arrows, which I wasn't going to do.
- Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.
- The general opinion was that it had fizzled out; like a spent squib, it hadn't even given one burst.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He spent all his working life in a factory.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
He spent all his working life in a factory.· They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.· But after four consecutive General Election defeats, is Labour a spent force?· On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force.
· Sometime this year the North will start unloading and replacing spent fuel from a large reactor at Yongbyon.· Its flies, the spent fuel, arrive regularly inside special containers on goods trains from nuclear reactors all over the country.· Reprocessing of overseas spent fuel is a proper and appropriate business for Dounreay.· A Green Party spokesman said that spent fuel rods are highly radioactive and potentially lethal.· In other words, Dounreay has agreed to store the spent fuel from research reactors for four years.· If you have to pay to reprocess the plutonium from spent fuel, though, it does not.· If the spent fuel can not be reprocessed, alternative dry storage is needed.· Reprocessing is a highly technically demanding and extremely expensive operation, involving the extraction of uranium and plutonium from the spent fuel.
· He'd obviously spent time here, perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage.· He also spent time at Grantham and Gainsborough for production training.· While there, he naturally spent time at the dyeworks; and twice, he had made the longer journey to Kouklia.· He went to Haarlem and spent time with his sister Wil, walking about with her but not confiding anything.· She specialised in tax and spent time as a manager at Edelman's Croydon office.· Napoleon actually spent time at the villa, staying there with Josephine.· In fact, over 5.7 million people spent time in hospital in 1989 alone.· As he progressed in the company, Sir Adrian also spent time out in the field selling.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1already used, and now empty or useless: - But after four consecutive General Election defeats, is Labour a spent force?
- Jesse Jackson, who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, is a spent force.
- On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force.
- They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.
He tried to eject the spent cartridge and reload. spent matches2a spent force if a political idea or organization is a spent force, it no longer has any power or influence: Socialism had become a spent political force.3literary extremely tired