| 词汇 | pin-money |
| 释义 | pin money noun[ U ] uk /ˈpɪn ˌmʌn.i/ us /ˈpɪn ˌmʌn.i/ a small amount of extra money that a person earns to buy things that they want but do not need小额闲钱 Compare spending money pocket money Grants & allowances anti-subsidy benefit benny bursary civil list corporate welfare cost-of-living allowance expense fellowship fringe benefit nonforfeitable nonforfeiture parachute payments pension personal allowance redundancy payment scrappage stipend subsidized unemployment Examples of pin moneypin money As everyone knows, part-time work is not confined to mums of young children who work to pick up pinmoney—that is an old concept. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They should understand the worry that it is a matter not merely of pinmoney but of livelihoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What about family members like wives or children helping out in the family business for nothing or pocket money or pinmoney? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some people have an image of home workers as a few women working for pinmoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are elderly women in their seventies working for pinmoney—no doubt because for some reason or other they have not got pensions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my part of the country, egg production has been the pinmoney for the farmer's wife. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When employment protection legislation was introduced, it could have been argued that in many instances part-time workers were in employment for pinmoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Given the present economic situation, it cannot be said that those workers—especially females—are interested only in earning pinmoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We still assume that women work for a second income—that is, second in order of importance—and that income is often described as pinmoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are talking not about pinmoney but about whether people can afford to pay the rent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Would anyone dare argue that, because most women work, they really work only for pinmoney? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of those employees are not working for pinmoney but for a family income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is not much activity by people who earn their living from fishing but only from those for whom salmon provide extra pinmoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often people say that women work just for pinmoney, but that is not so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These women are working not for pinmoney but because they may be single parents or desperately need to supplement their husbands' low incomes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of pin money These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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