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/sˈeɪvɪŋz bæŋk/ Listen

noun

Saving n.

Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.

Exception; reservation. "Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty."

Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.

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Etymology of 'Savings bank'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Savings bank" Quotes from Famous Books

... much have you saved? Enough, probably, to answer every purpose—that is, if you are willing to join me in taking advantage of one of the best openings for business that has offered for a long time. I have a thousand dollars in the Savings Bank. You have as much, or more, ...

— Words for the Wise • T. S. Arthur

... Horace put L100 in the Savings Bank for me on my last birthday. And the furniture at the flat is mine. I'd sell that and everything I've got, ...

— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson

... she's got in the world if she could get Christine out of the business and settled down in their own 'ome in Baltimore. Just to show you wot drink does for Brad, he pays Christine a good salary every week for riding and then insists on taking it back so's he can put it in the savings bank for 'er. He spends every penny of ...

— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon

... bought a book dealing with Australia from a second-hand bookstall, no longer denied them an account of his adventures there. A gold watch and chain, which had made a serious hole in his brother-in-law's Savings Bank account, lent an air of substance to his waistcoat, and a pin of excellent paste sparkled in his neck-tie. Under the influence of good food and home comforts he improved every day, and the unfortunate ...

— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

... sat at home and patched seaboots for his friends down in the hamlet. But he seldom got paid for it. "Leave it till next time," said they. And Soeren had nothing much to say against this arrangement, it was to him just as good as a savings bank. "Then one has something for one's old days," said he. Maren and the girl were always scolding him for this, but Soeren in this as in everything else, did not amend his ways. He knew well enough what women were; they never put by for a ...

— Ditte: Girl Alive! • Martin Andersen Nexo

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