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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
  • An expanse of land.
  • An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
  • A numerical difference.
  • Any form of food designed to be spread onto a slice of bread etc.
  • A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
  • economics The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
  • finance The difference between the prices of two similar items.
  • The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
  • trading An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
  • economics|finance The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
  • finance The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
  • finance The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
  • trading The difference between bidding and asking price.

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Verb:

  • slang To open one?s legs. from 20th c.
  • from 13th c.
  • from 14th c.
  • from 16th c.
  • from 13th c.
  • from 14th c.
  • from 13th c.
  • from 16th c.
  • from 13th c.

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