petty cash

1. 1.

   a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses

   Broaderfund

Questions about petty cash

What does petty cash mean?

petty cash means "a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses".

Is petty cash a common word?

petty cash 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.