as in spending 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.
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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
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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
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In the 2022 and 2024 cycles, pro-Israel groups swung into Democratic primaries, spending money against progressive critics of the Jewish state and keeping several out of Congress.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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In addition, time has expired for spending money previously appropriated by Congress, so for all practical purposes, not only is the money gone, so too are the programs that the money was meant to fund.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
6 Oct. 2025
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Any requirements for workers to use their own bank accounts for petty cash or wire transfers are banned, and union members cannot be held liable for petty cash variances out of their control under the terms of the contract.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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Paying for a Secret Service detail doesn’t come out of petty cash.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Pocket money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocket%20money. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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