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Meanings of piggybank in English

A container used to collect coins, often in form of a pig.

Synonyms
Examples for "money box"
Examples for "money box"
1
At home, Huw rook some money out of the money box.
Two lives
2
She opened her money box and walked down to the supermarket.
Coraline
3
Your money box must be bursting, for you've been hoarding up for ages.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
4
The brand is the key to the money box.
The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen
5
On the desk there was an ashtray crammed with cigar butts, and a minstrel money box.
Death Trance
1
The penny bank period was from 1870 to the end of the century and the banks reflect the period.
The new yorker
2
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Thrift
3
Thus the Penny Bank is emphatically the poor man's purse.
Thrift
4
Thirty-six Penny Banks were established in and around Glasgow.
Thrift
5
The first Penny Bank was started in Greenock, about thirty years since, as an auxiliary to the savings bank.
Thrift
1
Turning automated teller machines into your personal piggy bank is easy-alarminglyeasy.
Wired
2
He had all the cash he needed from Svavelsjö MC's piggy bank.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
3
She buys a piggy bank to start saving for a new ukulele.
Radio NZ
4
Billosaur, a piggy bank for the upwardly mobile from Le Mouton Noir.
Wired
5
They won't break the piggy bank either, just temporarily lighten his load.
The Irish Times
Usage of piggybank in English
1
The auction ends Nov. 16, so break out the hammer and open your piggybank.
Wired
2
It was chosen in a public vote, beating out a biplane and a piggybank.
Wired
3
The dude must really need to replenish his piggybank.
The Irish Times
4
You're standing in my personal piggybank, and my man Davidson out there, he's the guard.
Forgiving ararat
5
Before mum leaves she suggests that she will return when the kids' piggybank is full.
The Irish Times
6
Some administrators, he knew, would see this tragedy as a chance to piggybank to a promotion.
While galileo preys
7
Cummings claims the home affairs committee had been "turned into a piggybank to buy off Clegg".
The Guardian
8
"I would, but it's in my piggybank," I said, "and I can't break the piggy, obviously.
Small favor
Piggybank through the time