spad

spad englanniksi

1. A government adviser, often in a political or media role.

2. {{quote-book

3. {{quote-text|en|year=2009|author=Ben Wright|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7999306.stm|title=Hidden world of the political advisers|publisher=BBC

4. 2012, Avoid The Thick of It-style spad appointments, ministers told, ''The Guardian'':

The hit BBC sitcom satirising the inner workings of Whitehall and the so-called spads contains "more than a grain of truth", the head of the cross-party public administration select committee has warned.

5. A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.

6. (clipping of)

7. (quote-journal)

8. (quote-journal)The first white ones we call spads.(..)Two or three months after that clipping we pull out the spad quills.

9. fallout

10. (inflection of)

11. bleed

12. windfall (gl)

13. fallen nuts or fruit

14. slope, gradient

15. to flatten

16. to floor, to down

17. to kill

18. broth, decoction (water that something has been boiled in (whether used as an ingredient or not))

(ux)

19. lake- or seawater, drink