savings bank
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 Sav·ing, n.
 1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
 2. Exception; reservation.
    Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.   --L'Estrange.
 Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.

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 savings bank
      n 1: a thrift institution in the northeastern United States;
           since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services
           competitive with many commercial banks
      2: a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping
         money at home; "the coin bank was empty" [syn: coin bank,
          money box, bank]