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spending-money

spending-money is the alternative form of spending money.

Meaning of spending money

Noun

spending money (uncountable)

  1. A sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.
    • "Touching your brethren, Sir Prior," said Locksley, "they shall have present freedom, it were unjust to detain them; touching your horses and mules, they shall also be restored, with such spending-money as may enable you to reach York."1819, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 33, in Ivanhoe

Questions about spending-money

What is spending-money the alternative form of?
Spending-money is the alternative form of spending money.

Words near spending-money in the dictionary

  1. spending money like water
  2. spending power
  3. spending spree
  4. spending sprees
  5. spending time
  6. spending-money
  7. spendings
  8. spendless
  9. Spendlove
  10. Spendloves
  11. spendocracy

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