0 a short period of doing a particular, usually enjoyable, activity much more than is usual:
1 a short period of doing something in an extreme way without control:
2 a period of time during which there is a lot of activity of a particular type, especially when this involves spending money:
He lies insensate on the couch after his binges; then he begins to pass out on the couch during his drinking sprees.
As the coastal cities and urban consumers went on their spending spree, the rest of the country fell behind.
The stoppages for a wake or a fair or a three-day drinking spree were an accepted part of the potter's life-and they proved the most difficult to uproot.
While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above the squalor of shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters.
Are they also saying that the new buying spree on gas fired power stations will meet any problems which arise?
Admittedly, unemployment dropped a little between 1988 and 1990, but that was merely the result of that old-fashioned consumer spending spree.
He is here, presumably, on yet another arms buying spree.
They were making pledges and embarking on public expenditure sprees.
