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spending-money
[f. spending vbl. n. 7.]
Money used or available for spending; a sum allowed for this purpose; pocket-money.
1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Heavtontim. i. ii, Allowing them little spending mony. 1600J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 8 Soren is a kind of allowance over and above the bonaght, which the Galloglass exact upon the poore by way of spendinge monye. 1632Massinger City Madam i. i, From whom Received you spending-money? 1707J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. lvi. (1710) 654 The Allowance of 1s. 6d. per Week for Spending-Money. a1732T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 153 The servant at the term gets his fee in a round sum, while the young heir gets but a few pence for spending-money. 1856Olmsted Slave States 102 The slaves have a good many ways of obtaining ‘spending money’. 1890Spectator 5 July, Each missionary is therefore mulcted on the average to the extent of {pstlg}60 a year, a direct reduction..in his total spending-money of nearly one-fourth. |