Usually means: Expenses paid directly by individual.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word out of pocket:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. out of pocket: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. out-of-pocket, out of pocket: Merriam-Webster
  3. out-of-pocket, out-of-pocket, out of pocket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. out-of-pocket, out of pocket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. out of pocket: Collins English Dictionary
  6. out-of-pocket: Vocabulary.com
  7. out of pocket: Wordnik
  8. out-of-pocket, out of pocket: Wiktionary
  9. out-of-pocket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. out of pocket: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Out of pocket, out-of-pocket, out of pocket: Dictionary.com
  12. out-of-pocket: Rhymezone
  13. Out of Pocket: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. out-of-pocket, out of pocket: FreeDictionary.org
  15. out-of-pocket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Out of Pocket: The Word Detective
  17. out-of-pocket, out of pocket: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  3. Out-of-Pocket: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  4. out of pocket: Legal dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. out-of-pocket: Netlingo

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. out of pocket: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. out-of-pocket, out of pocket: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (out of pocket)

▸ adverb:  (idiomatic) Lacking funds, or suffering a financial loss; broke.
▸ adverb:  (idiomatic, of a person) Not available; unable to be reached.
▸ adverb:  (idiomatic) Wild or inappropriate; unexpected.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the spending of cash rather than using credit.
▸ adjective:  (slang) Shocking and unexpected or inappropriate.

Similar:
pennilessly, without, flat, bare, emptyhandedly, therewithout, withoutforth, homelessly, out of, abroad, more...

Opposite:
reimbursed, covered, compensated, refunded

Types:
cash, check, debit card, credit card, more...

Phrases:
out of pocket expenses, paid out of pocket, paying out of pocket, pays out of pocket, be out of pocket, more...

Adjectives:
hard up, tapped out, broken, out-of-pocket, impecunious, bruck, cash strapped, wealthless, land poor, dollarless

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Similar:
pennilessly, without, flat, bare, emptyhandedly, therewithout, withoutforth, homelessly, out of, abroad, more...

Opposite:
reimbursed, covered, compensated, refunded

Types:
cash, check, debit card, credit card, more...

Phrases:
out of pocket expenses, paid out of pocket, paying out of pocket, pays out of pocket, be out of pocket, out of pocket cost, out of pocket expense, to pull something out of pocket, more...

Adjectives:
hard up, tapped out, broken, out-of-pocket, impecunious, bruck, cash strapped, wealthless, land poor, dollarless



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