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  • 31spent criminal convictions — It is unlawful under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 for employers to take into account certain criminal convictions in respect of which the ex offender is considered in law to have been rehabilitated. For imprisonment between six months …

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  • 32spent offences — It is unlawful under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 for employers to take into account certain criminal convictions in respect of which the ex offender is considered in law to have been rehabilitated. For imprisonment between six months …

    Law dictionary

  • 33spent force — noun A person or thing whose former strength, usefulness, etc is exhausted • • • Main Entry: ↑spend …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 34Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask — A typical SNF shipping cask mounted on a railroad car. Spent nuclear fuel shipping casks are used to transport spent nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants and research reactors to disposal sites such as the nuclear reprocessing center at… …

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  • 35spent force — N SING: a N If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence. He had begun to look a spent force, a politician led by events rather than controlling them …

    English dictionary

  • 36Spent fuel —   Irradiated fuel that is permanently discharged from a reactor. Except for possible reprocessing, this fuel must eventually be removed from its temporary storage location at thereactor site and placed in a permanent repository. Spent fuel is… …

    Energy terms

  • 37spent fish — 1) a fish which has recently completed spawning. Fat content and general condition is usually low. Most fish caught on spawning migrations are caught before they are spent 2) live fish with a flesh fat content less than 2%. Also called lean fish …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 38spent force — noun A person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust. Evolution was not a spent force, but one still working …

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  • 39spent fuel — /spɛnt ˈfjuəl/ (say spent fyoohuhl) noun nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction …

  • 40spent grains — /spɛnt ˈgreɪnz/ (say spent graynz) plural noun the refuse malt and other insoluble residue left after the wort has been run off …