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Spending money   /spˈɛndɪŋ mˈəni/   Listen
noun
Spending  n.  The act of expending; expenditure.
Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. (Colloq.)






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"Spending money" Quotes from Famous Books



... Desire pursued, "and she said some people's part was to buy and employ and encourage; and that spending money helps all the world; and then she put another cushion to her back, and went ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... all humbug and falsehood to the very bottom. She knows that I am spending money about it, and she ought to be on the square with me. She ought to tell me what she can do and what she can't. When I asked her whether Sprugeon might be trusted, she said that she really wished that I wouldn't say anything more to her about it. I call that dishonest ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... went with his many other ways for making spending money. It required almost no time at all to run it. When he found an opportunity he caught frogs wherever he could find them, and put them into his preserve. Then, on feeling that he had the right kind of goods for a gilt-edge market he ...
— Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys - The Birch Bark Lodge • Silas K. Boone

... his pocket-book, and handed to his son, with the remark, "There, George, I don't want you to be penniless. You are a little extravagant, though, I think. Your pay from Mr. Danforth ought to keep you in spending money." ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger

... grief of the father was increased by the disappointment which had fallen upon the head of the house. But the old man bore it well, making but few audible moans, shedding no tears, altering in very little the habits of life; still spending money, because it was good for others that it should be spent, and only speaking of his son when it was necessary for him to allude to those altered arrangements as to the family property which it was necessary that he should make. But still he was a ...
— Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite • Anthony Trollope


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