SAVINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does savings mean? 

• SAVINGS (noun)
  The noun SAVINGS has 1 sense:

1. a fund of money put by as a reserve

  Familiarity information: SAVINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fund of money put by as a reserve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

nest egg; savings

Hypernyms ("savings" is a kind of...):

fund; monetary fund (a reserve of money set aside for some purpose)

Derivation:

save (accumulate money for future use)

 Context examples 

The moon is your ruler, and the Sun rules your second house of earned income and savings.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Ultimately, these savings could be passed on to consumers.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The aim is to create better infrastructures for citizens—from public transport to energy savings, sustainability, and overall efficiency.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

An officially chartered institution empowered to receive deposits, make loans, and provide checking and savings account services, all at a profit.

(Bank, NCI Thesaurus)

She had confessed her sins and been forgiven, but when she showed her savings and proposed a mountain trip, Beth had thanked her heartily, but begged not to go so far away from home.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the mean time, till all these alterations could be made from the savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns, and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to form themselves a home.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I saw him look at the loaf at supper (which happened to be a small one), as if nothing else stood between us and famine; and when my aunt insisted on his making his customary repast, I detected him in the act of pocketing fragments of his bread and cheese; I have no doubt for the purpose of reviving us with those savings, when we should have reached an advanced stage of attenuation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This month will be a high spending month for you, not only because of the holidays, but because Mars is moving through your second house of earned income and savings.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She had long ago bought, out of her own savings, a little piece of ground in our old churchyard near the grave of “her sweet girl”, as she always called my mother; and there they were to rest.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)