SPENDING MONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spending money mean? 

• SPENDING MONEY (noun)
  The noun SPENDING MONEY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SPENDING MONEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPENDING MONEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

pin money; pocket money; spending money

Hypernyms ("spending money" is a kind of...):

cash; hard cash; hard currency (money in the form of bills or coins)

 Context examples 

Thus they lived for two days: and when they had eaten up all there was in the cottage, the man said, Wife, we can’t go on thus, spending money and earning nothing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)