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Meanings of spad in English

Russian
самоходное зенитное орудие
Wikidata

Mobile vehicle with a dedicated anti-aircraft capability.

самоходное зенитное орудие
Russian
spad
Portuguese
société pour l'aviation et ses dérivés
Spanish
société pour l'aviation et ses dérivés
Wikidata

Aircraft manufacturer.

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spad
Russian
douglas a-1 skyraider
Portuguese
douglas a-1 skyraider
Spanish
douglas a-1 skyraider
Catalan
douglas a-1 skyraider
Wikidata

Attack aircraft family by Douglas.

Related terms
douglas a-1 skyraider
Russian
несанкционированный проезд семафора в опасной ситуации
Wikidata

Occurs when a train passes a stop signal without authority to do so.

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несанкционированный проезд семафора в опасной ситуации
Usage of spad in English
1
Drawed a knife, jes' like a spad that ye are!
The Tides of Barnegat
2
Within the railway safety fraternity spad is the acronym for a signal passed at danger.
The Guardian
3
The latest spad to come under fire is Michael Gove's at the Department for Education.
The Guardian
4
Dexterity though, in negotiating Whitehall paths, is surely part of what a spad is for.
The Guardian
5
A spad's position is often happy but the role's ambiguities can make for a rough ride.
The Guardian
6
And that's one of the lessons of spad-dom.
The Guardian
7
The title is sonorous enough though its abbreviation into "spad" sounds like an unappetising cooked meat.
The Guardian
8
He's a true spad pilot.
Our Pilots in the Air
9
Alastair Campbell was technically a spad although his ways with dossiers made life difficult for the breed as a whole.
The Guardian
10
I know a bit about this because one of our sons was a spad during five years of the Blair-Brown era.
The Guardian
11
That's what I did when I was a spad at the Welsh Office, and Dominic Cummings will be doing the same.
The Guardian
12
Where it goes wrong is when a media spad is too pro-active, too partisan and sometimes too good -ie like Damian.
The Guardian
13
Among the many continuing irritations of the little-mourned The West Wing was its unflinching devotion to a class of smart-talking, smart-suited Ivy League spad.
The Irish Times
14
Every Whitehall spad will know the name of the mayor of New York; perhaps only one in a hundred could identify the mayor of Paris.
The Guardian
15
At the beginning of this year there were just over 100 spads.
The Guardian
16
Politicians fight to get their chosen SpAd with as much money as possible.
Independent.ie