as in spending money
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Recent Examples of petty cash
Information in the memo line of the checks ranged from petty cash, birthday, benevolence and office to donor gifts and volunteer bonuses and gifts amounting to $178,276.
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Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025
Yes, there’s a bit of petty cash filtering in here and there for their little projects.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Yet the money, little more than petty cash for Meta, matters less than the message.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
The Granger government should pursue the right safeguards to prevent its oil fund from becoming a petty cash reserve for the president.
—Raúl Gallegos, Foreign Affairs, 2 Feb. 2017
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Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025
Yes, there’s a bit of petty cash filtering in here and there for their little projects.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Yet the money, little more than petty cash for Meta, matters less than the message.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
The Granger government should pursue the right safeguards to prevent its oil fund from becoming a petty cash reserve for the president.
—Raúl Gallegos, Foreign Affairs, 2 Feb. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for petty cash
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Michigan mother, 56-year-old Christina Obermok, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to spending money on herself that was intended for a hockey team associated with the Oakland Junior Grizzlies.—
Julia Avant,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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That means, customers are spending money on it, and preferably, not at a discount.—
Raj Dhiman,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Jan. 2026
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Panahi recalled his younger self, who would scrape together pocket money to see a film once every one or two weeks in Iran.—
Thomas Page,
CNN Money,
16 Jan. 2026
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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,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Petty cash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/petty%20cash. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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