0 an amount of money that parents regularly give to their child to spend as they choose: --
1 money for spending on your own personal things: --
I work really hard at this job, and all I get paid is pocket money.
I make a little pocket money delivering catalogues.
2 a small amount of money for small expenses --
No pocket money for the boys this week then, and their haircuts will have to be postponed yet again.
I suggest that the housewife will deduct these pennies before she hands her husband his pocket money.
They cover travel, academic fees, subsistence and books, but no separate provision is made for pocket money.
I have no record of the amounts of pocket money actually paid.
I have never been able to work out how he ever found time to come in and pick up his parliamentary pocket money.
Boys and girls over this age working in the training departments of a school are not paid but get pocket money.
There is need also to ensure that they bring adequate pocket money.
It is unrealistic to expect many parents to provide sufficient pocket money to pay for the compact discs, clothes and other things that teenagers want.
