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Definition: Spending Money |
Spending MoneyNoun1. Cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Spending MoneySynonyms: pin money (n), pocket money (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spending Money |
| English words defined with "spending money": careful, compensatory spending ♦ deficit spending ♦ expending, expenditure ♦ parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching, pump priming ♦ thrift, thrifty. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | A whole lotta spending money (Got My Mind Set On You; performing artist: George Harrison) | |
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Some developers find it difficult to justify spending money up front on energy saving upgrades, while others are concerned about the payback period on their investment. (references) | |
Some owners find it difficult to justify spending money on expensive clean technology retrofits, while others are concerned about the payback period on their investment. (references) | ||
Women | Taiwan | There have been reports of a growing trend of young women, often well educated, entering into part-time prostitution to earn additional spending money. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Documents show the network held a private conference in Washington earlier this month to discuss ways of raising and spending money when new campaign finance laws kick in after election day. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spending money | 24 |
make money without spending money | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spending money"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | джобни пари (allowance, beer money, pin money, pocket money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | költőpénz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | denaro per piccole spese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 小遣い (allowance, incidental expenses, personal expenses, pocket money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かねばなれ (free spending), かねづかい, "づかいせ" (incidental expenses), "づかい (allowance, handyman, incidental expenses, personal expenses, pocket money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | argid baarailagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endingspay oneymay bani de buzunar (pin money, pocket money). (various references) fickpengar (pocket money). (various references) harçlık (allowance, pocket money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-m-n-n-n-o-p-s-y" | |
-4 letters: eponymies, mispenned, pensioned. | |
-5 letters: demonise, deponing, deposing, doyennes, emending, endogens, endogeny, epigones, mendigos, mendings, meninges, mignonne, moseying, nominees, openings, pennines, pennoned, pensione, smidgeon, speeding, spending. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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