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nest egg
noun
- money saved and held in reserve for emergencies, retirement, etc.
- a natural or artificial egg placed in a nest to induce a hen to continue laying eggs there.
nest egg
noun
- a fund of money kept in reserve; savings
- a natural or artificial egg left in a nest to induce hens to lay their eggs in it
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Example Sentences
Growing a retirement nest egg is no easy feat post-recession.
Not necessarily all in a 401(k)—older workers should also have a decent cash nest egg, what with the state of the economy.
Not enough to retire instantly to somewhere warm and beachy, but a pleasant increment to my nest egg.
I was fortunate enough to have a little nest egg, but my first paycheck back in the real world was totally shocking.
A psychologist and authority on gullibility lost $400,000 of his retirement nest egg to none other than Bernard Madoff.
If such a darling thing should happen as my winning the prize, Id put it all in the bank for a nest-egg, she thought.
While making believe to be a poor man, he must have been putting by a nice nest-egg; else how could he buy all that furniture?
That, Mr. Massey said, made a steady two pounds a week, plus the very nice little nest-egg of a hundred pounds.
I had considerable faith in Brown's ideas, and he was as set on this one as a Brahma hen on a plaster nest-egg.
It is 316 enough to keep him and his mother while the boy is being educated and to leave a small nest-egg in addition.
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