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English
Verb
spare no expense (third-person singular simple present spares no expense, present participle sparing no expense, simple past and past participle spared no expense)
- To be willing to pay as much as necessary to achieve an objective.
Translations
do everything within one's powers to achieve something
See also
Further reading
- “spare no expense”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “spare no expense”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “spare no expense” (US) / “spare no expense” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “no expense is spared”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “spare no expense”, in Collins English Dictionary.