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pocket money

noun as in spending money

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Example Sentences

When his parents sent him to boarding school in Maine instead, he saved his pocket money and bought a bus ticket back home.

From Time

For example, in the 1970s, a company called Kelly Services had this whole advertising campaign for women who needed pocket money.

He gave science lectures to his older brothers and local kids whose attendance he assured by paying them from his pocket money.

Eleven million “self-employed” people—many of whom should be treated as employees—are dependent on this program while the companies they work for pocket money that should have been set aside to cover these costs.

From Fortune

This was not some cushy job for pocket money either, as Downs told me.

He told them he had bought a Scalextric car set with his pocket money when he was younger.

Sondra Wiener, forced to make pocket money like an out-of-work laborer, endures the pity of her neighbors.

The money in the possession of "Commercial depositors" we shall call "till money," and the rest "pocket money."

Some of them perhaps get half-a-crown a month as pocket money; but that will neither kill nor cure a man.

You have worked him like a navvy, and never given him enough pocket money to keep him in tobacco even.

At home my chums and I used to part with our pocket money at a tea-room called Sargents.

Beauties and joys he was to keep for pocket-money; small change is sometimes great gain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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