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pocket money

noun

: money for small personal expenses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web What was envisioned as a way for college athletes to make some pocket money based on their celebrity has turned into bidding wars for top recruits and transfers who can command millions for their services. Eric Olson, Chron, 30 June 2022 Keiichi Shibahara went from making pocket money on wine arbitrage to building Japan’s most valuable hospice care firm Amvis. James Simms, Forbes, 8 June 2022 San Francisco gangsters offered Eddy and his friends pocket money to run errands. Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021 The earnings helped pay for his textbooks and gave him pocket money to start riding the bus to school. Sonia Paul, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022 An immigration official welcomed Mr. Hasenfratz and gave him 5 Canadian dollars of pocket money. James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022 Chieng, 36, followed with a discussion about red pocket money or hóngbāo, a tradition where children and unmarried young adults receive red envelopes filled with cash from older family members. Tara Massouleh Mccay, PEOPLE.com, 1 Feb. 2022 Selling eggs from their roughly 85 chickens generates additional pocket money. Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021 By May, the Taliban started taking one district after another, often without a fight, allowing government troops to go home unharmed and giving them pocket money for the road. Jessica Donati, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1625, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pocket money was in 1625

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