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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

... that," said the young man. "I'll draw all my money out of the Shamrock Savings Bank to-morry and send her a ticket. But I'll tell you what, Mag, after I went away from here the last time I felt sure I'd never marry Dora Byrne. But maybe I was wrong. Poor thing! I'm ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

... our Father a dollar of our money to buy some Tulips. We gave our Mother a dollar to spend any way she wanted to. We put the rest of it in a book. It was a Savings Bank Book that we ...

— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... meaning clearer let us illustrate financially: Prudent people lay aside a few dollars from time to time, in a savings bank, for instance. All goes well and the savings grow. At last there are one thousand dollars. Now an emergency arises, and if the saver can not furnish nine hundred dollars he will lose his home. In this case he must either borrow or ...

— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... come to the real point of the puzzle. Moggs put regularly into the Post Office Savings Bank a certain proportion of his salary, while Snoggs saved twice as great a proportion of his, and at the end of five years they had together saved L268, 15s. How much had each saved? The question of ...

— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... farmers, no longer growing wool, were selling their flocks. Most of the growth was to be found in the industrial counties. The traditional New England thrift, however, was not lost with the migration of the people, for savings bank deposits were increasing, and the state of Vermont was free from debt in 1880, and all its counties in 1890. The South, between 1870 and 1890, increased in numbers a little less rapidly than the country as a whole. ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

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