Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

spectre

 noun
     
Related topics: Folklore
spec‧tre British English ; specter American English
1

the spectre of something

something that people are afraid of because it may affect them badly:
The recession is again raising the spectre of unemployment.
2 [countable] literaryRF a ghost
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