as in spending money
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Recent Examples of pocket money
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.
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 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
Having your full income as pocket money is not a good life lesson at all.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 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
Having your full income as pocket money is not a good life lesson at all.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pocket money
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pocket money
Noun
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Shopping, spending money, earning money or exploring moneymaking ideas is blessed.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2026
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Trump has usurped Capitol Hill's Constitutional powers on spending money and waging war.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
17 Jan. 2026
Noun
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She was known for her generosity — giving scores of her books and nearly-new clothes and jewelry to friends and keeping a petty cash fund just for veterinary bills for loved ones’ ailing pets, the friend said.—
Frank Suraci,
Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
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Three of the businesses said the suspect got away with petty cash, but that the damages caused are much greater.—
Briseida Holguin,
CBS News,
21 Dec. 2025
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“Pocket money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocket%20money. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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