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单词 piggy bank
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Definition of piggy bank in English:

piggy bank

noun
  • 1A money box, typically one shaped like a pig.

    (尤指形状似猪的)存钱罐

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He counted out the entire contents of his piggy bank to help tsunami victims after seeing newspaper and television coverage of the disaster.
    • There are piles of change next to the piggy bank.
    • His parents urge him to save his coins in the little piggy bank on his dresser, yet they willingly give their own coins away to any stranger extending a hand across a counter.
    • As usual, she raids her children's piggy banks and heads to the supermarket with £6.50.
    • They gave your father piggy banks when he was young because they wanted him to develop healthy spending and saving practices, thus protecting him from the curse of debt.
    • If you have any old £10 notes hiding away in a wallet, purse or piggy bank, you have until midnight tonight to spend them.
    • They even fled with cash from children's piggy banks from houses in Park Lane.
    • The piggy bank is a timeless tool and see-through ones work best.
    • They took our cash, my jewellery, my husband's laptop computer, my children's piggy banks and broke my bathroom window.
    • Do you try to spend it to 'get rid of it', or do you put it in a jar or a piggy bank?
    • One evening in 1940, my grandmother walked into my father's bedroom - he was 7 at the time - to find him sitting on his bed, the contents of his piggy bank spread around him, in floods of tears.
    • I've always loved the things, from the little tinware postboxes I had as a small child to the stainless steel savings box the banks used to issue to children, right through to the ceramic piggy banks I still enjoy.
    • From birth to 11, the account offers an interest rate of 3.80%, a twice-yearly magazine, a piggy bank and a set of money-off vouchers.
    • Donations had ranged from children raiding their piggy banks to large cheques for hundreds of pounds.
    • As a measure of motivation, kith and kin present tiny piggy banks to them.
    • Workers turned up with boxes, bags and piggy banks crammed with coins and by the end of the day the total reached £1, 550.
    • He's raided your piggy banks and filched all your birthday money.
    • Every few months, when his piggy bank is full, we take it to a real bank, run it through the coin sorter, change the total into bills.
    • The under- 11s can opt for an organiser and calculator, piggy bank, squirrel or back pack with the Supersaver account.
    • His line, launched last year, included hats, piggy banks, stuffed dolls and even street fashion.
    1. 1.1 A person's savings.
      many people would dip into their piggy bank to pay their higher tax bills

      很多人会从积蓄中取钱支付增加的税费。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The government has been borrowing money out of the Social Security trust fund like it's their own private piggy bank.
      • That suggests that people are using money in their piggy banks to fund a lot of their Christmas shopping this year.
      • If you're going to make a stability/heritage / piggy bank fund, the money in it should be invested in the future - hence, education.
      • The money raised would become a sort of piggy bank of last resort to pay doctors and hospitals for patients who don't pay them.
      • But, as many employers have found out, tapping the trust fund piggy bank can bring increased personal risk and result in harsh measures.

Definition of piggy bank in US English:

piggy bank

nounˈpɪɡi ˌbæŋkˈpiɡē ˌbaNGk
  • 1A container for saving money in, especially one shaped like a pig, with a slit in the top through which coins are dropped.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They even fled with cash from children's piggy banks from houses in Park Lane.
    • Every few months, when his piggy bank is full, we take it to a real bank, run it through the coin sorter, change the total into bills.
    • Donations had ranged from children raiding their piggy banks to large cheques for hundreds of pounds.
    • The under- 11s can opt for an organiser and calculator, piggy bank, squirrel or back pack with the Supersaver account.
    • One evening in 1940, my grandmother walked into my father's bedroom - he was 7 at the time - to find him sitting on his bed, the contents of his piggy bank spread around him, in floods of tears.
    • They took our cash, my jewellery, my husband's laptop computer, my children's piggy banks and broke my bathroom window.
    • He counted out the entire contents of his piggy bank to help tsunami victims after seeing newspaper and television coverage of the disaster.
    • He's raided your piggy banks and filched all your birthday money.
    • Workers turned up with boxes, bags and piggy banks crammed with coins and by the end of the day the total reached £1, 550.
    • As usual, she raids her children's piggy banks and heads to the supermarket with £6.50.
    • From birth to 11, the account offers an interest rate of 3.80%, a twice-yearly magazine, a piggy bank and a set of money-off vouchers.
    • His parents urge him to save his coins in the little piggy bank on his dresser, yet they willingly give their own coins away to any stranger extending a hand across a counter.
    • If you have any old £10 notes hiding away in a wallet, purse or piggy bank, you have until midnight tonight to spend them.
    • As a measure of motivation, kith and kin present tiny piggy banks to them.
    • Do you try to spend it to 'get rid of it', or do you put it in a jar or a piggy bank?
    • His line, launched last year, included hats, piggy banks, stuffed dolls and even street fashion.
    • I've always loved the things, from the little tinware postboxes I had as a small child to the stainless steel savings box the banks used to issue to children, right through to the ceramic piggy banks I still enjoy.
    • They gave your father piggy banks when he was young because they wanted him to develop healthy spending and saving practices, thus protecting him from the curse of debt.
    • The piggy bank is a timeless tool and see-through ones work best.
    • There are piles of change next to the piggy bank.
    1. 1.1 A person's savings.
      many people would dip into their piggy bank to pay their higher tax bills

      很多人会从积蓄中取钱支付增加的税费。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • That suggests that people are using money in their piggy banks to fund a lot of their Christmas shopping this year.
      • The government has been borrowing money out of the Social Security trust fund like it's their own private piggy bank.
      • If you're going to make a stability/heritage / piggy bank fund, the money in it should be invested in the future - hence, education.
      • The money raised would become a sort of piggy bank of last resort to pay doctors and hospitals for patients who don't pay them.
      • But, as many employers have found out, tapping the trust fund piggy bank can bring increased personal risk and result in harsh measures.
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