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单词 pocket money
释义
pocket money
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɒk.ɪt ˌmʌn.i/us
/ˈpɑː.kɪt ˌmʌn.i/

pocket moneynoun[U](CHILD'S MONEY)

B1mainlyUK
(USallowance)
anamountofmoneythatparentsregularlygive totheirchildtospendas theychoose:
零花钱
Mydadgives me £5 aweekpocketmoney.爸爸每周给我5英镑零花钱。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Earning money
  • (your)(daily) breadidiom
  • assessable
  • bank
  • base pay
  • basic
  • basic income
  • benefits package
  • feel the pinchidiom
  • hand over fistidiom
  • in arrearsidiom
  • lineyourpocket(s)idiom
  • livelihood
  • pay packet
  • pull
  • pullsomethingdown
  • rakesomethingin
  • remonetize
  • remuneration
  • shift
  • sick pay
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pocket moneynoun[U](ADULT'S MONEY)

moneyforspendingonyourownpersonalthings:
日常零用钱
I make a littlepocketmoneydeliveringcatalogues.我送购物指南挣点零用钱。
informal
asmallamountofmoney,especiallyanamountthat is not enough:
极少的钱
Iworkreally hard at thisjob, and all I getpaidispocketmoney.这份工作我做得非常辛苦，但挣到的钱却少得可怜。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Amounts of money
  • bank
  • bounty
  • buck
  • capital
  • circumstance
  • coin
  • fisc
  • have/getyoursnout in the troughidiom
  • holdback
  • kitty
  • living wage
  • means
  • money supply
  • payout
  • pool
  • slush fund
  • sub
  • sum
  • surplus
  • trough
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Small amounts of money
(Definition ofpocket moneyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

pocket money| American Dictionary

pocket money
noun[U]
us
/ˈpɑk·ɪt ˌmʌn·i/
asmallamountof money forsmallexpenses
(Definition ofpocket moneyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpocket money

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The charge by the welfare home is slightly lower than the average pension, leaving the older people with a littlepocketmoney.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A medical recommendation was necessary to claim the benefit, which might also include travel expenses andpocketmoney.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Following a complex process of registration, police docketing and the issue of identity cards,pocketmoneyand clothing coupons, the men and women were transported to employment camps.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is parents themselves, indeed women themselves, who give their girls lesspocketmoneythan their boys.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The study shows that girls receive far lesspocketmoneythan boys.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
In all other age groups, girls are given lesspocketmoneythan boys.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It encourages a sense of independence and responsibility, and provides extrapocketmoneyfor the things that children want, which parents nowadays often cannot afford.
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It is unrealistic to expect many parents to provide sufficientpocketmoneyto pay for the compact discs, clothes and other things that teenagers want.
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There is need also to ensure that they bring adequatepocketmoney.
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Boys and girls over this age working in the training departments of a school are not paid but getpocketmoney.
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I have never been able to work out how he ever found time to come in and pick up his parliamentarypocketmoney.
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I have no record of the amounts ofpocketmoneyactually paid.
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They cover travel, academic fees, subsistence and books, but no separate provision is made forpocketmoney.
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I suggest that the housewife will deduct these pennies before she hands her husband hispocketmoney.
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Nopocketmoneyfor the boys this week then, and their haircuts will have to be postponed yet again.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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