Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pocket money
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He earned pocket money by repairing furniture for neighbors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And if they have enough pocket money or other cash - say £5 - to buy whatever is available locally.
▪ Carmine had a man who washed his pocket money in Ivory liquid to keep it germ-free.
▪ Do they have to do anything to earn their pocket money?
▪ He earned pocket money by repairing furniture for neighbors and then trained as a patternmaker for a company that produced textile machines.
▪ He was saving his pocket money to buy a calculator.
▪ Her lodgings were paid for and she had £50 pocket money a week.
▪ Herbert gave him pocket money to buy one a week.
▪ Now people can earn pocket money by picking it.
Wiktionary
pocket money
n. 1 A small sum of money given to a child, by a parent or guardian. 2 (chiefly US) A small sum of cash, carried on the person, for small, daily expenses.
WordNet
pocket money
n. cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses [syn: pin money, spending money]
Wikipedia
Pocket money
Pocket money may refer to:
- In British English, an allowance for children
- Pocket Money, a 1972 film starring Paul Newman and Lee Marvin
- Small Change (film), a 1976 film directed by François Truffaut, titled Pocket Money outside the United States
- Operation Pocket Money, a U.S. Navy aerial mining campaign during the Vietnam War
Pocket money
Pocket money may refer to:
Usage examples of "pocket money".
You're not yourself, and I'm out a little of my own pocket money, time and temper.
I paid her fare, for at that time I had learned how to earn pocket money, selling firewood from my father's carpenter shop.
Now let us all get rid of every bit of pocket money we are still carrying.