save

protect; keep

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A small glass jar steadily filled with coins beside a neatly closed wallet, one hand adds another coin rather than spends it, no currency lettering or labels.

noun

savings

SAY-vingz/sˈeɪvɪŋz/

Money kept rather than spent.

Etymology

savEnglishprotect; keep

+ingEnglishan action or activity

+sEnglishin a particular way or direction

Saving first named salvation or protection from danger, then came to mean economy in spending. Its plural names the accumulated money kept back through that economy.

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