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spectre
UK (US specter) /ˈspektər/ nounDefinition
the spectre of sth › the idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future: This attack raises the spectre of a return to racial violence.
› [C] literary a ghost (= dead person's spirit)
(Definition of spectre noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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