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spending money en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.
    • "Touching your brethren, Sir Prior," said Locksley, "they shall have present freedom, it were unjust to detain them; touching your horses and mules, they shall also be restored, with such spending-money as may enable you to reach York." 1819, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 33, in Ivanhoe:
    • "Percy has lots of spending money, but I doubt if he has twenty dollars at a time." 1902, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 6, in The Young Bridge-Tender:
    • [T]he best way to head off a recession . . . is to put some spending money back in the people's pockets. 2011 March 22, Frank Pellegrini, “The Selling of the Tax Cut: First Stop Greenspan”, in Time:
    • "My father will see that you are provided with suitable clothes," proceeded Brown; "and you shall have a little spending money also." 1876, Horatio Alger, chapter 30, in Sam's Chance:

Forms

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Relateds

mad money

Synonyms

pin money · pocket money

Translations (2)

hu költőpénz (sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases) · sl žepnina (sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases)