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savings bank

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savings bank
n.
A bank that receives and invests the savings of private depositors and pays interest on the deposits.
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Noun1.savings banksavings bank - a thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks
thrift institution - a depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buying
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
2.savings banksavings bank - a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty"
coin bank, money box, bank
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)
penny bank, piggy bank - a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig)
Translations
savings bank n → caja de ahorros
savings bank n → caisse f d'épargne
savings bank saving n → Sparkasse f
savings bank n → cassa di risparmio


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I wanted Matthew to put it in the Savings Bank in the first place, but old Mr.
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
The six-day drivers all tell me the same, and I have laid by more money in the savings bank than ever I did before; and as for the wife and children, sir, why, heart alive
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Hill had bought herself a pianner out of what she made picking, so she said, but she was very near, one wouldn't like to be near like that, and most people thought it was only what she said, if the truth was known perhaps it would be found that she had put a bit of money from the savings bank towards it.
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