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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Savings bank" Quotes from Famous Books

... for which Jane had especial attachment. It brought two hundred dollars, which, in addition to the price of the farm, and the store and its stock, gave Reuben just nineteen hundred dollars to put in the Savings Bank. ...

— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

... establishment. On the death of Dr. Nicholas, his sons attempted to carry on the school; but the numbers declined rapidly, and George Huxley, about 1835, returned to his native town of Coventry, where he obtained the modest post of manager of the Coventry savings bank, while his daughters eked out the slender ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... lie, George couldn't. Washington, it is probable, never knew what it was to stow away a schooner of beer, and history makes no mention that he ever, on any pretext, eat limberger cheese. At least no mention was made of it in his farewell address. He never was President of a savings bank. Washington never lectured. He never edited a newspaper. He could not tell a lie at the rates editors charge. No he was a good man, with none of the small vices that ...

— Peck's Compendium of Fun • George W. Peck

... their money in a savings bank, where it would lie at compound interest, and be handy in case they were in need of ...

— Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise - or, The Dash for Dixie • Louis Arundel

... habit of dwelling on the much I had missed rather than on the little I had apprehended. But the little I had apprehended was, after all, my real possession, and one I could increase. It is like the few dollars a man has in a savings bank. That at least is his, notwithstanding the millions he might have possessed if he had only known how to acquire them. There are many instances of a few dollars in the savings bank becoming the seedling of millions before the span of a man's life ...

— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King

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