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Spad meaning
A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
Example sentences (8)
They tie themselves in knots with, clearly, SPAD-written answers that dance round the question.
In the more than six months since Mr Johnson became PM and brought him into the heart of his machine, Mr Cummings has waged a war on the Spad system.
Next week, Russia is expected to raise the Self Propelled Air Defence Gun Missile System (SPAD-GMS) project with defence Minister next week in Moscow.
Loke had previously given his assurance that all SPAD workers would be redeployed to fill existing vacancies in JPJ.
Will these challenges be collectively handled by a ministry whose inefficiency led to the establishment of SPAD in the first place?
He settled into Escadrille 26 to pilot a Spad, and claimed two victories on 2 October 1918, one of which was confirmed.
The most successful (or least unsuccessful) was the SPAD 12 Ca.1 with a single 37mm Puteaux mounted to fire between the cylinder banks and through the propeller boss of the aircraft's Hispano-Suiza 8C.
The word has an unknown origin and was originally (c. 1440) used as a term for a short knife or dagger, probably related to Dutch spyd or the Latin "spad-" a word root meaning "sword"; cf. Spanish "espada", English "spade" and "spadroon".