| 单词 | savings |
| 释义 | savings (once / 457 pages) n All the money you've saved — instead of spending it — is your savings. And when you put this money in the bank, you can open a savings account. You might call your savings a nest egg or a rainy day fund, but it's literally the money you save, whether you keep it in a piggy bank or a savings bank. The noun savings has been used this way since the 1730s, and terms like savings account and savings bank came along about a hundred years later. WORD FAMILYsaving: savingly, savings+/save: saved, saver, saves, saving, savior/saved: unsaved/saver: savers/savior: saviors USAGE EXAMPLESIt also captures hundreds of billions in savings by slowing the rate of growth in certain Medicare payments. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Without a sustainable budget solution, the annual Permanent Fund dividend soon will disappear, as will our savings accounts. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The special savings account gets 30 percent of the state’s oil tax collections. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) n a fund of money put by as a reserve Syn|Hyper nest egg fund, monetary fund a reserve of money set aside for some purpose |
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