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spec
1[ spek ]
adjective
- built, done, bought, etc., as a speculation:
the construction of spec houses.
verb (used with object)
- to provide specifications for:
The custom turbocharger was spec'd by our mechanic.
- (in a video game) to create or update (a character) by assigning attributes, skills, weapons, armor, and other items that affect the character’s powers, speed, strength, intelligence, etc.:
Do your research before you spec your character, because some builds are just not viable and this game does not allow you to re-spec.
spec.
2abbreviation for
- special.
- specially.
- specifically.
- specification.
spec.
1abbreviation for
- specification
- speculation
spec
2/ spɛk /
noun
- on specas a speculation or gamble
all the tickets were sold so I went to the theatre on spec
adjective
- prenominal speculative
a spec developer
Other Words From
- spec’·er speck·er noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of spec1
Word History and Origins
Origin of spec1
Idioms and Phrases
- on spec, made, built, or done with hopes of but no assurance of payment or a sale; without commitment by a client or buyer:
ad illustrations done on spec;
luxury homes built on spec and sold before completion.
More idioms and phrases containing spec
see on spec .Example Sentences
Cody Towse, 29-year-old Sgt.1st Class Jeffrey Baker, 24-year-old Spec.
A Facebook photo shows four of them, 28-year-old Staff Sgt Francis Phillips, 19-year-old Spec.
Then comes the spec, circus slang for the spectacle that opens the show.
The director, Peter Hermes, had an online sample reel of previous work that included a spec Doritos commercial.
Richard Rushfield is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood.
"The whole thing looks like being a damned bad spec," the Syndicate grumbled.
En ez fur sellen' this place, war I wuz born'd en raze, I never spec' ter.
Dis hyer letter what she done wrote dis mawnin tells all bout it I spec.
A tiny point near the center of the screen swelled to a spec, and jumped nearly off the screen to the left.
If we were out in some parts of the West, Saul Harrington, any office would find it a bad spec to insure your life.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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