Word Finder - savings

definition

A reduction in cost or expenditure.

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The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.

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(usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.

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I invested all my savings in gold.

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The action of the verb to save.

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Exception; reservation

She couldn't return to her apartment, and her savings were almost gone.

Did he know how meager her savings were?

Her savings and checking accounts combined had never exceeded $3,000 - not even before she paid the bills.

The city has, besides, numerous fine office buildings, including that of the Society for Savings (an institution in which each depositor is virtually a stockholder), the Citizens', Rose, Williamson, Rockefeller, New England and Garfield buildings; and several beautiful churches, notably the Roman Catholic and Trinity cathedrals, the First Presbyterian ("Old Stone"), the Second Presbyterian, the First Methodist and Plymouth (Congregational) churches.

The only money she had was in her savings account.

There are savings banks in Banjaluka, Bjelina and Brcka.

My guess is that most of the savings came from Señor Medena, though.

In Italy, people can apply for loans through savings banks, assurance companies and mutual benefit societies.

Of course, she had the thirty-some thousand in her savings account - most of which had been allotted her when she turned twenty-one.

Campania holds the first place in the south, most of the savings of that region being deposited in the provident institutions of Naples.

There is also a government savings bank.

Do you know he has over four million in savings?

The post office savings bank was opened in 1884.

The efficiency savings will have a huge effect on pay.

In 1900 laws were passed regulating the contract of labour, placing the workman on a footing of perfect equality with his employer, assuring the married woman free control of her savings, and organizing a system of old-age pensions.

This was constituted in 1886 and was chiefly made up of the net savings of the Egyptian government on its share of the annual surpluses from revenue.

The provincial banks are very numerous; many of them are at the same time savings banks.

These charges gathered weight until the minister was forced to resign in July 1908, and in September he was arrested on a charge of forgery in his capacity as director of the Zealand Peasants' Savings Bank.

His adopted son, Nana Sahib, inherited his accumulated savings, but could obtain no further recognition.

Among the principal buildings are the county court house, the free public library, the Tama building, the GermanAmerican savings bank building and the post office.

There are 8 savings banks in the republic, whose aggregate deposits on the 31st of December 1906 were 14,799,728 pesos.

Besides his anti-clerical pamphlets his minor writings include much discussion of social questions, of the organization of savings banks, asylums, &c., and he founded the Societe Callier for the encouragement of thrift among the working classes.

Many of these emigrants return with considerable savings and settle on the land.

For an account of the Monte Pio Geral, which is a combined bank, pawnbroking establishment and benefit society, see Pawnbroking; the deposits in the Monte Pio and the State Savings Bank amounted in 1910 to some £5,228,000.

There are also many private banks, including savings banks.

Among the buildings in the burned section restored since 1906, the Union Trust, Mutual Savings, Merchants Exchange, Crocker, Flood and the Call (newspaper) buildings are notable.

Among business buildings built since the fire are the Phelan building (costing more than $2,000,000), the buildings of the Bank of California, the Alaska Commercial Company, the First National Bank and the San Francisco Savings Union, and the Chronicle (newspaper) building.

Commercial banks and savings banks are required to keep on hand at least 15% of their total deposits.

For the maintenance of the common schools each town is required (since 1905) to raise annually at least fifty-five cents per capita, exclusive of what may be received from other sources, and to this is added the proceeds of a state tax of one and a half mills on a dollar, onehalf the proceeds of the tax on savings banks, a 6% income from the permanent school fund (derived mainly from the sale of school lands), and state appropriations for the payment in part of the superintendence in towns that have united for that purpose.

The chief sources of the state's revenue are a general property tax and taxes on the franchises of corporations, especially those of railway and insurance companies and savings banks; among the smaller sources are licences or fees, a poll tax, and a collateral inheritance tax.

The first savings bank was organized in 1873, and state banks now outnumber national banks.

In December he left Milan with his friend Luca Pacioli, having first sent some of his modest savings to Florence for investment.

The custom of investing savings in gold and silver ornaments gives employment to many goldsmiths; the metal is usually supplied by the customer, and the goldsmith charges for his labour.

Private banks and one savings bank were also chartered.

In 1909 there were 470 state banks and 3 savings banks with total resources amounting to $140,155,455.

The deposits in the Post Office Savings Banks rose from £1,481,000 in 1880 to £ 10, 459, 000 in 1906, and the deposits in Trustee Savings Banks from £2,100,165 in 1880 to £2,488,740 in 1905.

The savings all expended and Sully fallen into disgrace, she lost her influence and became the almost unconscious instrument of an ambitious man of low birth, the Florentine Concini, who was to drag her down with him in his fall; petty shifts became thenceforward the order of the day.

It also managed to engage private interests in state reform by creating the Grand Livre de la Dette Publique (September 1326, 1793), and enlisted peasant and bourgeois savings in social reforms by the distribution and sale of national property.

The principal source of revenue was an indirect tax on corporations, the tax on railways, savings banks and life insurance companies, yielding 70% of the state's income.

A small post at the National Library, together with his sister's savings, furnished him with the means of livelihood.

My guess is that most of the savings came from Señor Medena, though.

The rest he had built in investments – other than what was in the special savings account drawing interest until he could decide whether to return it or accept the responsibility that went with it.

It would deplete her savings, but she could rent it out to retrieve some of the cost.

Savings and shares raising the program income is advocated within both the financial sustainability paradigm and poverty alleviation paradigms.

Goldfish successfully launched its internet based savings account and began active marketing in the autumn.

This will bring forward annual carbon savings of around 35,000 tons and annual household energy bill reductions of around £ 20 million.

The process is not simply about staging an online auction in order to make savings for the customer.

In continental Europe this reflects the fact that post war baby boomers are now at their peak earning and savings years.

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You can start a business up from scratch using almost any amount of savings.