pocket money

noun

: money for small personal expenses

Examples of pocket money in a Sentence

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Society insisted that women were the dependents of men, and working women were conveniently imagined as wives and daughters earning pocket money to purchase lace doilies for their dressing tables. Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 In Pakistan, her mother told her to set aside any pocket money and, once it’s accumulated, buy 24-karat gold coins. Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 The store was its own theatre: overflowing displays of hair clips and necklaces that could turn pocket money into possibility. Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pocket money

Word History

First Known Use

1625, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pocket money was in 1625

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“Pocket money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pocket%20money. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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pocket money

noun
: money for small personal expenses

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