spare part

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Noun

spare part (plural spare parts)

1. A component of any manufactured goods, kept in reserve to replace one that fails; a spare.
   • 1945 November and December, H. R. Fox, “The Jamaica Railway, 1845-1945”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:

     It is extremely difficult to obtain spare parts from abroad, and these are manufactured in the shops [workshops].

   • 2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, page 47:

     As for the rest, Steward says: " I suspect probably only 40 to 50 may have a future on the rails, and the others will be componentised. As with all industries, recycling is a very big thing. There's a lot of value in the spare parts."

Related terms

• car part

Translations

component kept in reserve

• Arabic: قِطْعَة غَيَار f (qiṭʕa ḡayār)
• Bulgarian: резервна част f (rezervna čast)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零件 (zh) (língjiàn), 備用零件 / 备用零件 (bèiyòng língjiàn)

• Czech: náhradní díl m
• Danish: reservedel c
• Dutch: reserveonderdeel (nl) n, reservedeel n, wisselstuk (nl) n
• Estonian: varuosa
• Finnish: varaosa (fi)
• French: pièce de rechange (fr) f, pièce détachée (fr) f
• German: Ersatzteil (de) n
• Greek: ανταλλακτικό (el) n (antallaktikó)
• Hungarian: pótalkatrész (hu)
• Indonesian: onderdil (id), suku cadang (id)
• Italian: ricambio (it) m, pezzo di ricambio m
• Japanese: スペアパーツ (supeapātsu), 予備パーツ (yobi-pātsu)
• Korean: 예비 부품 (yebi bupum)
• Luxembourgish: Ersatzstéck n
• Malay: alat ganti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reservedel m

  Nynorsk: reservedel m

• Portuguese: sobressalente (pt) m
• Romanian: piesă de schimb (ro) f
• Russian: запасна́я часть f (zapasnája častʹ), запчасть (ru) f (zapčastʹ), запасна́я дета́ль f (zapasnája detálʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: резервни део m, rezervni deo m
• Spanish: pieza de repuesto f, pieza de recambio f, repuesto (es) m, refacción (es) f, retén (es) m, recambio (es) m
• Swahili: spea (sw)
• Swedish: reservdel (sv) c
• Tagalog: bahaging timbos
• Thai: อะไหล่ (th) (à-lài)
• Ukrainian: запасна́ части́на f (zapasná častýna), запчасти́на f (zapčastýna)
• Uyghur: لىڭجەن (lingjen)

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