specnoun
uk/spek/us/spek/informal[ C ] informal for specification (= a detailed description of how something should be or has been done, made, etc.):
The article compares the specs of ten of the best-selling cars.
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Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- broaden
- complicate
- depth
- detail
- dilate
- dilate on/upon sth
- dumb
- enlarge on/upon sth
- expand
- expand on sth
- expansive
- expatiate
- flesh
- flesh sth out
- oversimplify
- predigested
- reductive
- simplify
- specification
- split
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on spec
taking a chance, without being sure that you will get what you want:
We just turned up at the airport on spec, hoping that we'd be able to get tickets.
You could always send your CV to a few companies on spec.
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Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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