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Definition of Save up

1. Verb. Accumulate money for future use. "They save up their grandchild with money"; "He saves half his salary"

Definition of Save up

1. Verb. (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money, especially for a specific, planned expenditure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Save Up

Literary usage of Save up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1896)
"I'll save up for your sake.' ' I do not want you to save up,' she answered with that faint tone of maternal care which is never wanting in a woman's love. ..."

2. Educational Foundations (1916)
"ALL: Let's save up our pennies for her right away. Good-bye; good-bye. (Children depart for home ... ELIZABETH: Fifty-five cents is all I could save up. ..."

3. Howitt's Journal by William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt (1848)
"But the savings'-bank—the workman is advised to save up for the future. ... To save up for oneself alone, is to act distrustfully towards one's fellow men ..."

4. Four-H Home Conservation Guide: A Collection of Hands-On Projects ...by DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Gl YES UNO save up to $10 a month. *27. If you have a manual defrost ... O YES O NO By defrosting whenever ice builds up to 3/4" you can save up to $25/year ..."

5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"... said: "Every man wants to join them—to save up three or four dollars to buy revolvers to shoot every policeman down; he says he wants every workingman ..."

6. Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and by William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1900)
"But I find myself at the end of my money und I am at loss whether it would be better for me to teach one or two years and save up money enough to go on with ..."

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