spending money

noun

|Updated on: 24 Jul 2018

Examples: spending money in a Sentence

Definition of spending money

: pocket money

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Examples of spending money in a Sentence

She earned spending money at an after-school job.

Recent Examples of spending money from the Web

But if a kid goes and plays four games and there are no college coaches and all the family does is spend money to stay in a hotel, is that worth it?

— pat disabato, Daily Southtown, "Disabato: As travel schedules continue to expand, high school baseball teams feeling the summer squeeze," 13 July 2018
For now, though, and for the foreseeable future, there will be no place on that stretch of Cross Street to spend money at all.

— nestor ramos, BostonGlobe.com, "Weep not for Starbucks. But in the North End, what comes next?," 12 July 2018
Buy Photo Philadelphia’s controller will audit the way the Parking Authority staffs and spends money on salaries for on-street parking enforcement.

— jason laughlin, Philly.com, "Philly's controller to audit PPA's parking enforcement," 11 July 2018
The theory behind creating tax increment districts, or TIFs, is that a municipality will agree to spend money upfront on infrastructure, incentives or other costs to spur a development that would not otherwise happen.

— bob dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Seeing red: Which Milwaukee suburbs are closest to their debt limits?," 11 July 2018
In a 2011 case challenging a law that barred foreign nationals — who are lawfully but temporarily inside the United States — from spending money on campaigns, Judge Kavanaugh upheld the restriction.

— charlie savage, New York Times, "Brett Kavanaugh on the Issues: Abortion, Guns, Climate and More," 10 July 2018
The most influential and well-funded health industry groups, among 20 that spent money lobbying on the 16 bills, are the California Medical Association and the California Hospital Association.

— angela hart, sacbee, "Doctors, nurses, insurance companies spending big to influence California's health care future," 6 July 2018
Trump’s personal grudge fused with the ideological commitments of Republican policy wonks and lawmakers who were loath to spend money on a public project, especially in Democratic states.

— jeet heer, The New Republic, "Why Trump will never be an infrastructure president.," 6 July 2018
The Missouri Republican Party’s executive committee voted 12-1 to allow the Republican National Committee to spend money on Attorney General Josh Hawley’s behalf ahead of the state’s contested primary.

— bryan lowry, kansascity, "Missouri GOP gives national party green light to spend money on Hawley before primary," 3 July 2018

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