savings bank
Americannoun
noun
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a bank that accepts the savings of depositors and pays interest on them
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a container, usually having a slot in the top, for saving coins
Etymology
Origin of savings bank
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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TSB recently faced a public outcry over plans to shut a museum at the site of the world's first savings bank.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2021
In 1816, the first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
A standing-room-only crowd of true believers and opportunists crammed into the vast domed hall of a former Gilded Age savings bank in Williamsburg.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
Housed in a former savings bank, the Grandezza Hotel overlooked the scenic Zelny Trh, or Cabbage Market, a small square that predates Brno’s official founding in the 13th century.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2017
They have been employed to instruct us in the whole range of our institutional virtues, from the White House to your neighborhood savings bank.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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