"hot spare" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hot spares [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hot spare (plural hot spares)
  1. A spare device, component, or other piece of equipment which is kept powered up although not being actively used, allowing it to be immediately brought online as a replacement should a piece of equipment fail while in active use. Wikipedia link: hot spare
    Sense id: en-hot_spare-en-noun-Dtk2xkdL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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