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Examples

  • When your lender cuts the asessed value of your collateral in half, you are screwed, unless for some incredible reason you happened to have half the value of your collateral sitting in pettycash.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Sowood Capital Latest Casualty of Credit Market Turbulence: 2007

  • He went towards the window and, taking up the pettycash book, scanned its pages. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • I shall give orders to triplelock the pettycash, to count the stampmoney diligently, to watch all checks for inept forgery.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • He went towards the window and, taking up the pettycash book, scanned its pages.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • R3000 from the pettycash with him, "conference associate secretary general Father Emil Blaser said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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