out-of-pocket

1. 1.

   calling for the spending of cash

   “his out-of-pocket costs were $10”

   Similardue

Questions about out-of-pocket

What does out-of-pocket mean?

out-of-pocket means "calling for the spending of cash".

How many syllables are in out-of-pocket?

out-of-pocket has 4 syllables and divides as ou-t-of--poc-ket under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is out-of-pocket a common word?

out-of-pocket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.