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Meanings of pin money in English

Portuguese
mesada
Spanish
dinero para gastar

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

mesada
Synonyms
Examples for "pocket money"
Examples for "pocket money"
1
After all, a young man could always use some extra pocket money.
The Godfather
2
We paid out in pocket money for a few months or more.
The Guardian
3
And his father had given him two fiveshilling pieces for pocket money.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4
The phone is paid for on top of her £50-a-monthpocket money.
The Guardian
5
They wear better clothes than we do, and have more pocket money.
The High School Left End; or, Dick & Co. Grilling on the Footbal...
1
Let's not get into the question of this spending money right now.
Villain
2
What were people spending money on in the Hastings district this year?
Radio NZ
3
Book now and don't be worrying about spending money on new clobber.
The Irish Times
4
In fact, many local TV stations are spending money on locally-made programs.
Reuters
5
Beck continued the rant: You're spending money that leads only to slavery!
Tears of a clown: glenn beck and the tea bagging of america
Usage of pin money in English
1
And when business is slow they pick up pin money by freelancing.
Agents of light and darkness
2
This he had decided to hand over to Selma as pin money.
Unleavened Bread
3
We boys would sell things from the garden for amusement and pin money.
Out of Doors—California and Oregon
4
You will have just four hundred dollars a year for pin money, laughingly.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
5
However, here is the housekeeping money and your pin money.
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
6
Many a farmer's wife finds her poultry flock a never-failing source of pin money.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry
7
Money-yes; pin money: a couple of hundred thousand, perhaps.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
8
What will you do with your pin money?
The Voice on the Wire
9
For pin money to buy etceteras with.
Rolling Stones
10
For Mrs. Thurston could give her daughters only five dollars a month apiece for their pin money.
The Automobile Girls at Washington; Or, Checkmating the Plots of...
11
If he asks: "Should a wife have pin money?"
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
12
I had also, in my purse, 100 scudi in gold, which I had saved from my pin money.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal / An Authentic Narrative of...
13
You have five hundred dollars pin money to spend as you like; but I have no pin money.
Married
14
And she-shehad scarcely enough pin money to indulge in such outings as this a few times a month.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
15
He also generously equipped me financially-"Justa little pin money for you," as he charmingly expressed it.
The Greater Love
16
But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children.
The Conflict
Translations for pin money
Portuguese
mesada