savings account
a bank account on which interest is paid, traditionally one for which a bankbook is used to record deposits, withdrawals, and interest payments.
Origin of savings account
1- Compare checking account.
Words Nearby savings account
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How to use savings account in a sentence
Senate Bill 1452 expands the state’s education savings account voucher.
Betsy DeVos is gone — but ‘DeVosism’ sure isn’t. Look at what Florida, New Hampshire and other states are doing. | Valerie Strauss | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostAffirm provides financing for online purchases to customers who don’t have savings accounts or credit histories, and might otherwise not be denied credit.
Wall Street wins again: Affirm IPO leaves $1.23 billion (at least) on the table | Shawn Tully | January 13, 2021 | FortuneIn theory, developers could pay a price for their emissions into a kind of county-owned savings account.
County’s New Climate Plan Could Use the System That Doomed the Old Plan | MacKenzie Elmer | January 13, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThose approaching retirement could at a minimum begin funneling some of their savings in their later years into a safe savings account to cover their first year or two of expenses in retirement.
To combat this challenge, we aim to help one million people open low-cost checking and savings accounts.
Set it up so that a fixed amount from every check goes into that new savings account.
Happy Tax Day. Now Stop Making Interest-Free Loans to the U.S. Government. | Megan McArdle | April 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYou think the interest rate on your savings account is paltry?
Happy Tax Day. Now Stop Making Interest-Free Loans to the U.S. Government. | Megan McArdle | April 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“Currently, it is easier for a child to get a credit card than it is to get a savings account,” she says.
How Jeroo Billimoria Is Turning Poor Kids Into Savers | Daniel Gross | March 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI have about $2K in a savings account and just began contributing to my 403(b).
Do you think I should invest $1K of my savings account money into the stock market?
As for Pant, he, for the first time in his life, had a savings account.
White Fire | Roy J. SnellThe government paid interest on savings and encouraged even the poorest to have a savings account.
Birdseye Views of Far Lands | James T. NicholsI'll order silver mugs to-morrow, and start a savings account for each baby.
Desert Conquest | A. M. ChisholmHe could see his savings account going down almost to the vanishing point.
Agent Nine Solves His First Case | Graham M. DeanI'd suggest, however, that you start a savings account at the local bank with the enclosed salary check.
The Fourth R | George Oliver Smith
British Dictionary definitions for savings account
an account at a bank that accumulates interest
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