Word of the Week - 57

SPATE

This week's word is a noun which came to my attention after a conversation with my mother. She was telling me about how crime is increasing in our home town, especially burglaries. She used this word which refers to an unusually large number of events which happen suddenly and at about the same time.

There has been a spate of burglaries in our neighbourhood recently.

I'm going through a spate of bad luck at the moment.

The government is planning traffic reforms after a spate of deaths on national motorways.