Spree

Definitions

1. Uninhibited activity.
   in-compounds
2. A river in Germany that flows through Lusatia and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.
3. A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic.
   dated

Equivalents

Examples

“spending spree”

“Then all three major builders were called upon to deliver⟳ 105 Berkshires before the buying spree was over.”

“Twitter has been on a hiring spree, spending $630 million on stock-based compensation in 2021, a 33 percent increase⟳ from the previous year.”

“Tradition says she spent the last⟳ two years of her life in the strange den I have⟳ been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant and satisfying spree.”

“It would be a long time before he could be like⟳ the majority of these men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink⟳ and for women mastered them, and then went to work⟳ with a purpose in mind⟳, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.”

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