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# savings

«savings» in Mova's school dictionary: **Money that you keep and do not spend, often in a bank or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (savings — plural; a saving, savings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Money that you keep and do not spend, often in a bank or money box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#m1)

2) An amount of money or time that you do not have to spend because something is cheaper or quicker: "a saving of 5 dollars". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and money lessons, savings grow when you put money aside each week; problems ask how long it takes to save for something. In everyday life, savings are kept in a piggy bank, a savings account or a credit union. Shops talk about "savings" when prices are lowered. Phrases: savings account, life savings, money savings, make a saving, put into savings.

### examples

- I keep my savings in a jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x1)
- Ava used her savings to buy a new bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x2)
- If I add 3 dollars a week to my savings, I will have 30 dollars in 10 weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x3)
- Mum opened a savings account for me at the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x4)
- The sale gave us a saving of 10 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x5)
- Walking instead of driving is a saving of money and fuel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x6)
- He lost his life savings in a scam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x7)
- And then he bade her give the men back their savings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/#x8)

### note

"Savings" (money kept) is usually plural: "My savings are in the bank." "A saving" is one amount saved. The verb is "save". In maths, a saving is the difference between the old price and the new price: was 20, now 15, saving 5. Safety: never give your bank details or savings to strangers online; it may be a scam.

### In the corpora

- [Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/16/)
- [Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/4/)
- [Banks offer children's accounts to keep savings safe and teach how banks work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/19/)
- ["Efficiency savings" means budget cuts (UK).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/12/)
- ["Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «savings» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savings/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.