0 past participle, past simple of spoon-feed
1 to feed a baby or other person using a spoon
2 to give someone so much help or information that that person does not need to try himself or herself:
Accustomed to being spoon-fed, students often treated teachers as paid servants.
We do not want a spoon-fed population here.
To my mind, tax competition can be nothing but beneficial, but we have been spoon-fed that phrase about harmful tax competition from all angles.
Pupils will no longer be spoon-fed that information.
Here you have this infant industry which is 13 years old and it is still claiming to be spoon-fed.
The agricultural industry has never been a spoon-fed industry, and no one at this time would advocate that it should become so.
The real curse of agriculture is that agriculturists are always asking to be spoon-fed and to be put on different terms from anybody else.
Now in connection with better standardisation it has lost its spoon-fed character, and grading stations have been seeking registration as co-operative societies.
