单词 | to save up |
释义 | > as lemmasto save up to save up 1. intransitive. To keep and store up resources instead of spending or using them up; (chiefly) spec. to accumulate money by regularly setting aside a portion of one's income, frequently in order to make an otherwise unaffordable purchase in the future. Frequently with for. Cf. sense 17b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > be sparing or frugal [verb (intransitive)] > save savea1450 scrape1552 to save up1715 1715 Select Rules of Genders of Nouns & Heteroclites i. 30 Comparco, comparsi, comparsum, arcere, to Save up. 1762 S. Foote tr. P. N. Destouches Spendthrift iii. viii, in S. Foote et al. Comic Theatre I. 195 If your nephew spends a little freely, why, you know, you are saving up for him. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvii. 214 Now he's a saving up to treat himself afore he dies to one small purchase. 1884 W. L. Blackley Thrift 91 I set myself to save up for my own old age. 1920 T. S. Eliot Let. 6 Jan. (1988) I. 352 I thank you very very much for my generous present. I shall save up for a suit in the spring. 1964 P. White Let. 14 Dec. (1994) ix. 275 I am trying to save up. 2010 B. Agbaje Off Endz vii. 45 You went out and got yourself a part-time job and saved up for those trainers. 2. transitive. To keep and store up instead of spending or using; (chiefly) spec. to accumulate (money) by regularly setting aside a portion of one's income. Frequently with for. Cf. sense 17a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (transitive)] > put money aside savec1390 to save up1721 sock1942 the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > use sparingly or frugally [verb (transitive)] > save savec1390 to save up1796 the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > reserve > by dint of economy spelec1175 savec1390 hain?1507 to save up1796 1721 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon in London Jrnl. 2 Dec. 4/1 She..fancy'd ihe [sic] cou'd save up a Fortune to him in a few Years. 1754 Mag. of Mag. Dec. 619/2 They are at infinite pains to save up the rain water and the meltings of the snows. 1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis vii. 178 By saving up a single five shillings, and not laying any part of it out in gin, but keeping the whole, she would save £7. 10s. a year. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh iv. 29 A parting gift from my little sister Fanny, who..had saved up her pocket-money during many previous months, in order to provide funds for this munificent present. 1884 W. L. Blackley Thrift 20 To try the system of saving up a little week by week. 1919 J. Thurber Let. 11 June (2002) 32 I thought..I would have enough money saved up to flit a quick flit about Europe. 1947 Boys' Life Jan. 50 Some of them just can't wait for the next issue, while others save up the installments so they can read the complete story. 2002 Bliss June 40/3 I saved up £1,000 in five months while all my mates were busting their asses for a pittance. < as lemmas |
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