Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Money for the pocket or for occasional or trivial expenses.
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Examples
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I will give you my pocket-money as reimbursement if there is an emergency! ialways count you as blessed when a flight is missed.
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This relates to how the magazines can be bought over the counter with no real age restrictions at pocket-money price, and teenage boys have very few lifestyle magazines to choose alternatives from.
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Topshop, once the province of teenagers on pocket-money budgets, is adored by women of all ages and incomes for its exceptional designs.
How to dress your age Alice Fisher 2010
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I was so taken with them that within a year I had all of them, out of my own pocket-money, despite the fact that they were so intensely expensive compared to the cheap American comics at the local store.
How Comics Should Look Heather McDougal 2008
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I was so taken with them that within a year I had all of them, out of my own pocket-money, despite the fact that they were so intensely expensive compared to the cheap American comics at the local store.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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She hadn't emptied it since the last time she was in the city, and she hadn't spent all the pocket-money Cameron had given her for that trip.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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The mother of this little rapscallion thinks she has found the real culprit behind this whole mess: The main thing that needs to be done is for supermarkets to stop offering alcohol at pocket-money prices.
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He only had threepence a week pocket-money and half a-crown seemed riches to him.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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Like most parents, I have been giving this basic money management advice to my two children since they moved beyond the pocket-money stage and started economic lives of ...
Patrice Peyret: How to Save $11 Billion on Checking Account Fees in 2010 2009
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Like most parents, I have been giving this basic money management advice to my two children since they moved beyond the pocket-money stage and started economic lives of ...
Patrice Peyret: How to Save $11 Billion on Checking Account Fees in 2010 2009
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