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: something resembling a spigot especially in regulating availability or flow (as of money)
Examples of spigot in a Sentence
the spigot on a beer keg
Hook the hose up to the spigot behind the house.
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The teachers and administrators don’t work with the safety net of the always-running state spigot.
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Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
To defund universities because of faults that have nothing to do with research is to recklessly shut off the spigot to innovation.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
Yes, but: Don't worry, your spigot is not about to go dry.
—Asher Price, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
If Putin loses the spigot of windfall oil revenues which has been propping him up the last three years, then the Putin regime will almost certainly collapse.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
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Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
To defund universities because of faults that have nothing to do with research is to recklessly shut off the spigot to innovation.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
Yes, but: Don't worry, your spigot is not about to go dry.
—Asher Price, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
If Putin loses the spigot of windfall oil revenues which has been propping him up the last three years, then the Putin regime will almost certainly collapse.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for spigot
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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spigot. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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