Synonyms:
savings, nest_egg
Meaning: a fund of money put by as a reserve
Usage examples
A man has invested his savings in mining stock, and can I tell him what to do about it?
He left Bohemia with more than a thousand dollars in savings, after their passage money was paid.
Millowners and manufacturers build hospitals, schools, savings banks, asylums, and dwellings for their workpeople.
After the line of railroad was completed upon which the father had worked, he came to Laclede and invested his savings in a small general store.
The seignior could kill the serf with impunity, could deprive him of his wife, violate his daughter, pillage his house, and rob him of his savings; religion checked his invasions: it excommunicated the seignior.