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deep pockets

deep pockets noun: pockets long enough inside to accommodate more than the average number or size of contents.

Noun

deep pockets pl (normally plural, singular deep pocket)

  1. (literally, plural, plural-normally) Pockets long enough inside to accommodate more than the average number or size of contents.
    • I like the deep pockets on these pants because my cellphone doesn't fall out when I run with my dog.
    • It was a good thing his coat had deep pockets because he has big hands and it was quite cold that day.
  2. (figuratively, plural, plural-normally) An ample supply of money, especially money which one is willing to spend.
    • We need an investor with deep pockets to help us get our invention to market.
    • Out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000.1959 December 21, “The Biggest Fund”, in Time
    1. (figuratively, plural, plural-normally) The possessor of such money.

Examples of deep pockets in a sentence

  • It is commonly claimed that juries award plaintiffs who sue corporations larger sums of money because the jurors believe that the corporations, with their "deep pockets," can afford more.1989, V. Hans, M. Ermann, “Responses to Corporate versus Individual Wrongdoing”, in Law and Human Behavior, volume 13, number 2, page 153:
  • The federal government was the one party with the deep pockets to meet the rent-seeking needs of insurers and high-risk property owners.2003, Jeffrey Manns, “Insuring against Terror?”, in The Yale Law Journal, volume 112, number 8, page 2529:

Forms of deep pockets

singulardeep pocket

Questions about deep pockets

What does deep pockets mean?
Deep pockets means pockets long enough inside to accommodate more than the average number or size of contents.
How do you use deep pockets in a sentence?
It is commonly claimed that juries award plaintiffs who sue corporations larger sums of money because the jurors believe that the corporations, with their "deep pockets," can afford more.
What part of speech is deep pockets?
Deep pockets is a noun.

Words near deep pockets in the dictionary

  1. deep petrosal nerve
  2. deep petrosal nerves
  3. deep pile carpet
  4. deep pile carpets
  5. deep pocket
  6. deep pockets
  7. deep point
  8. deep points
  9. deep rhetoric
  10. Deep River
  11. deep scattering layer

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