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spence

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for spence.

Editorial note

What is astonishing is Professor Bob Spence does not seem to make any typos during the half hour long video.

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Quick take

Short form of the male given name Spencer.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Short form of the male given name Spencer.

noun

A surname.

noun

A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spence.

noun

Short form of the male given name Spencer.

noun

A surname.

noun

A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

noun

A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.

Example sentences

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What is astonishing is Professor Bob Spence does not seem to make any typos during the half hour long video.

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Or maybe one possible pronunciation of them is close enough to Spence it's used as a name in some place that uses those characters?

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I've been frustrated by the consistent lack of mention the Spence Signaling Model gets in the HN discussions on higher education.

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I wonder how much exposure we would have received if Spence had not interceded.

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George Akerlof (the author of this paper), Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz got a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.

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The former head of the Toronto District School Board Chris Spence recently had to resign after a spate of criticism over plagiarism in newspaper articles he had written for the local paper.

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The previous standard might be Marks & Spence a grocery chain in the UK which provided much of their product as pre-packaged ready (or nearly ready) to eat meals, this was picked up by folks like Trader Joes in the US and some other higher end markets.

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I spent the rest of the spring and summer embedding that Mocha, then LiveScript, interpreter into Netscape 2's rendering engine and network library; I had help from the front end hackers (@jwz and Spence Murray on the XFE; @knobchouck and Garrett Blythe on WinFE; Aleks Totic on MacFE), who did all the native control integration; we collaborated on the front-to-back-end API.

Quote examples

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Formal-something I (吾輩) like from the "I am a cat" gets translated as "Spence" (I think the pronoun isn't used much).

Proper noun examples

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Among my many favorite quotes (I am reviewing all of them and laughing; the movie is a goldmine [0]): Spence: You think too hard.

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Other good books are Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler, or the linear algebra book by Friedberg, Insel, and Spence.

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Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China is fairly decent, although it is not light-weight.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use spence in a sentence?

What is astonishing is Professor Bob Spence does not seem to make any typos during the half hour long video.

What does spence mean?

Short form of the male given name Spencer.

What part of speech is spence?

spence is commonly used as noun.