extra money
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1.3
- noun
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dinero extra
- With the extra money I earned from my side job, I can finally buy a new laptop.
- earn extra money
- spend extra money
Take the extra money and look for OPS.
- Take the extra money and look for OPS.
- You want to use that extra money to build wealth, not to get more stuff.
- It takes that extra money and pays it out to workers, OK?
- And then what would you advise people who have a bit of extra money that they want to invest in?
- I need to make extra money and my dad is such a man with dignity.
- But then once you get that sweet tax break, you can use all the extra money on all the miracle care that you want.
- So in an equal economy, we all have some income and we all have some extra money to spend.
- I'm not about to send her off to a nine to five just to get some extra money when she's loving her freelance life.
- When I was I really started moving where I had extra money in my pockets to.
- So this is like I wasted extra money more than I had to on these items.
Examples
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Mom could do with some extra money right now, don't you think?
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I needed the extra money.
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The teacher was teacher was given some extra money to run a summer school.
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So I will spend a little bit of extra money on those.
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People pay extra money and they get better services than everybody else.
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So in an equal economy, we all have some income and we all have some extra money to spend.
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We could really use the extra money.
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I could use the extra money.
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What are you gonna do with all that extra money you save?
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It'll mean extra money coming in at last, and goodness knows we can use it!
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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2.2
A company pays extra money to an employee for good work
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3.3
A large extra payment from your job for good work
How Essential
3
3.9
- Informal
16
3.0
∞
1.2
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1.6
68
1.3
- Informal
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3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'money received in addition to one's regular income' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'extra' (more than usual) with 'money' (currency), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'additional money'. This noun phrase follows a straightforward modifier + noun pattern common across languages, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase extra money comes from the simple image of a small pile of coins added to your usual pay. Here extra means 'in addition' and money is cash, so the phrase means money you get 'in addition' to your 'regular income'.