SAVINGS BANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does savings bank mean? 

• SAVINGS BANK (noun)
  The noun SAVINGS BANK has 2 senses:

1. a thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks

2. a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVINGS BANK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

thrift institution (a depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buying)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "savings bank"):

MSB; mutual savings bank (a state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees)

federal savings bank; FSB (a federally chartered savings bank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bank; coin bank; money box; savings bank

Context example:

the coin bank was empty

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

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "savings bank"):

penny bank; piggy bank (a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig))

 Context examples 

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)