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spoil

2 noun
     
spoil2
1

spoils

[plural] formal
a) the things that someone gets by being successful:
They tried to take more than a fair share of the spoils.
b) things taken by an army from a defeated enemy, or things taken by thieves
2 [uncountable] waste material such as earth and stones from a mine or hole in the ground:
spoil heaps
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