spending-moneyn.
Money used or available for spending; a sum allowed for this purpose; pocket-money.
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spending-silver1377
dispense1382
dispending1487
spending-money1598
pocket money1625
pin money1702
pocket allowance1726
Saturday pennya1854
spense1886
spend1970
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos i. ii, in Terence in Eng. 204 Allowing them litle spending mony.
c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 8 Soren is a kind of allowance over and above the bonaght, which the Galloglass exact upon the poore by way of spendinge monye.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 121 From whom Receiv'd you spending money?
1707 J. Chamberlayne Present State Great Brit. (1710) ii. iii. lvi. 654 The Allowance of 1s. 6d. per Week for Spending-Money.
a1732 T. 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.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 102 The slaves have a good many ways of obtaining ‘spending money’.
1890 Spectator 5 July Each missionary is therefore mulcted on the average to the extent of £60 a year, a direct reduction..in his total spending-money of nearly one-fourth.
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