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Spending Money

Definition: Spending Money

Spending Money

Noun

1. Cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Spending Money

Synonyms: pin money (n), pocket money (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Spending Money

English words defined with "spending money": careful, compensatory spendingdeficit spendingexpending, expenditureparsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching, pump primingthrift, thrifty. (references)

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Modern Usage: Spending Money

DomainUsage

Lyrics

A whole lotta spending money (Got My Mind Set On You; performing artist: George Harrison)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Spending Money

DomainTitle

Books

  • Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: The Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Spending Money

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Spoken Usage: Spending Money

SpeakerPhrase(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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spending Money

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

spending money

24

make money without spending money

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spending Money

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

   

Romanian

  

bani de buzunar (pin money, pocket money). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fickpengar (pocket money). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

harçlık (allowance, pocket money). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Spending Money

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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