pocket money

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Recent Examples of pocket money Having your full income as pocket money is not a good life lesson at all. Erin Clack, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025 Getting $10 pocket money for mowing the neighbor’s lawn is so last year. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024 And the average worker isn’t a teenager working for pocket money. Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025 Money immediately began pouring in, ranging from fans able to make a five-figure pledge to children donating their pocket money. Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pocket money
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Noun
  • Earlier this year, Missouri House Republicans pushed for a bill to ban state agencies from spending money on diversity programs, staff or other initiatives.
    Alecia Taylor July 11, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2025
  • Hull had been told by the English Football League (EFL) that their failure to maintain transfer payments would result in a penalty preventing them from spending money on new players until January 2027.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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

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“Pocket money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocket%20money. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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