maintenance vs pocket money

maintenance

noun
  • Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family. 

  • The natural process which keeps an organism alive. 

  • Child support. 

  • Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service. 

  • A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit. 

  • Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce. 

pocket money

noun
  • A small sum of money given to a child, by a parent or guardian. 

  • A small sum of cash, carried on the person, for small, daily expenses. 

How often have the words maintenance and pocket money occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )