pocket money

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Recent Examples of pocket money 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 And the average worker isn’t a teenager working for pocket money. Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025 Getting $10 pocket money for mowing the neighbor’s lawn is so last year. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pocket money
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pocket money
Noun
  • The president has not been spending money appropriately.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Winning matches and spending money obviously makes a notable difference to fan sentiment and this summer’s spending has created plenty of optimism.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Paying for a Secret Service detail doesn’t come out of petty cash.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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.
    Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Pocket money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocket%20money. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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