a fund of money put by as a reserve

Things kept from being wasted or lost; money laid by from time to time.

He could not have made all his money by his own savings. – Cord and Creese by James de Mille

Every time he was in the town he went to the lawyers and the savings- banks. – Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 2 by Martin Anderson Nexo

What further savings he could effect in a foreign land he knew not; he only wanted to be up and doing. – A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade

Well, you can work and buy land with your savings, and land here under the Homestead Act has been $ 1. 25 an acre since 1820; still that may not put you ahead very fast. – Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters

" You figger what per cent o' th' customs savings you want fer yer share, an' we'll decide tomorrow night. – Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford

Hunt and our furniture has swallowed up more than our savings. – Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

They have done nothing more than this that I am aware of since their appointment, and it is plain, that the savings spoken of by the noble baron as having been effected by their recommendation are completely swallowed up by the project of a free press. – Maxims And Opinions Of Field-Marshal His Grace The Duke Of Wellington, Selected From His Writings And Speeches During A Public Life Of More Than Half A Century by Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

I should sell it and add the price to my savings, and go home and buy some land, and take a pretty wife, and breed camels and horses. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

On several occasions she has broken into the children's savings bank to secure the means to enable her to gratify this desire. – My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

If you are thinking of your money in the Savings Bank, that they will not allow you to take. – Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes

" And he seemed very nervous when he took away his savings," adds Piddie. – Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

But she is very well pleased now; she and her husband have retired to a pretty little house of their own, with some little savings which they live on very quietly. – Fruitfulness Fecondite by Emile Zola

It had been furnished at small cost out of his savings. – The Parisians, Book 6. by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Auntie Sue had told him about her visit to the President of the Empire Consolidated Savings Bank, and of the arrangement made by the banker- as she understood it- for Brian's protection. – The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright

Oh, yes; he's got a good sum in the savings- bank, but he is a very cautious man. – Walter Sherwood's Probation by Horatio Alger

In that hut were all their savings, to lose which would mean to lose the fruits of their life's labours. – In the Brooding Wild by Ridgwell Cullum

With the blind faith of a child he one day confided his savings to me because he was afraid the Germans might search him. – Servants of the Guns by Jeffery E. Jeffery

Just a little perhaps, my dear, because after this you need not think of little savings. – Lola by Owen Davis

Any life would be better than one supported in comfortable idleness on Mr. Neefit's savings. – Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope