Word.ws English Dictionary

out of one's own pocket

out of one's own pocket prepositional phrase: using one's own funds.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (figuratively) Using one's own funds.
    • to pay out of one's own pocket
    Synonyms:
    out of pocket

Synonyms of out of one's own pocket

Questions about out of one's own pocket

What does out of one's own pocket mean?
Out of one's own pocket means using one's own funds.
What part of speech is out of one's own pocket?
Out of one's own pocket is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of one's own pocket in the dictionary

  1. out of one's gourd
  2. out of one's hands
  3. out of one's head
  4. out of one's league
  5. out of one's mind
  6. out of one's own pocket
  7. out of one's senses
  8. out of one's sight
  9. out of one's skin
  10. out of one's skull
  11. out of one's system

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: out of one's own pocket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “out of one's own pocket.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/out_of_one%27s_own_pocket. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.