savings certificate

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noun

a certificate of deposit for a specific sum of money in a savings account, especially a deposit for a fixed term at a specified interest rate.

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Origin of savings certificate

First recorded in 1915–20

And even those who consider themselves great patriots prefer to keep their savings in foreign currency.
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My birth certificate was modified, I changed my name, and when I was sixteen I emancipated from my grandparents and my father.
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They examined every “poll list, tally sheet, certificate of result, and, where necessary, each ballot.”
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She continued on to Maine and secured a birth certificate in the name of Julia Wadsworth.
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Miller was able to use the Maine birth certificate to secure an Ohio identity card as Julia Wadsworth.
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From the point of view of cover, the gold certificate is completely inelastic.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
A savings bank is not a true bank of deposit, providing circulating credit.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Many savings banks especially are thus organized and continued.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
A former chapter speaks of promises to pay certain savings by the use of Trevithick's inventions prior to his leaving for America.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
The agreement was that patentees should have one-fourth part of the savings of coal above twenty-six millions.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick