pocket money

1. 1.

   cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses

   Synonymspin moneyspending money

   Broadercash

Questions about pocket money

What does pocket money mean?

pocket money means "cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses".

What is another word for pocket money?

Close synonyms include pin money, spending money. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pocket money a common word?

pocket money 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.