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spending money

spending money noun: a sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.

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
    • "My father will see that you are provided with suitable clothes," proceeded Brown; "and you shall have a little spending money also."1876, Horatio Alger, chapter 30, in Sam's Chance

spending money meaning in Tamil

spending money in Tamil

கைச்செலவுப் பணம்

Examples of spending money in a sentence

  • "Percy has lots of spending money, but I doubt if he has twenty dollars at a time."1902, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 6, in The Young Bridge-Tender:
  • [T]he best way to head off a recession . . . is to put some spending money back in the people's pockets.2011 March 22, Frank Pellegrini, “The Selling of the Tax Cut: First Stop Greenspan”, in Time:

Synonyms of spending money

Forms of spending money

alternative formspending-money

Questions about spending money

What does spending money mean?
Spending money means a sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.
What is spending money in Tamil?
Spending money in Tamil is கைச்செலவுப் பணம். See Spending money meaning in Tamil.
How do you use spending money in a sentence?
"Percy has lots of spending money, but I doubt if he has twenty dollars at a time."
What part of speech is spending money?
Spending money is a noun.

Words near spending money in the dictionary

  1. spendiest
  2. spendin'
  3. spending
  4. spending a penny
  5. spending good money after bad
  6. spending money
  7. spending money like water
  8. spending power
  9. spending spree
  10. spending sprees
  11. spending time

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