Usually means: Accumulate money for future use.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. save up: Vocabulary.com
  2. save (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. save up: Wiktionary
  4. save up: Dictionary.com
  5. save up: Rhymezone
  6. save up: FreeDictionary.org
  7. save up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. save up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. save up: Legal dictionary

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  1. save up: Encyclopedia

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  1. save up: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (save up)

▸ verb:  (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money, especially for a specific, planned expenditure.

Similar:
save, lay aside, store up, put by, put away, put up, budgetize, set by, conserve, store away, more...

Opposite:
spend, waste, squander

Types:
hoard, pile up, accumulate, amass, gather, stockpile, more...

Phrases:
save up money, save up for, more...

Adjectives:
saving, reservatory, w/o, set-aside, backup, reserved, fine, sold out, remainder, custom, deliver

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Similar:
save, lay aside, store up, put by, put away, put up, budgetize, set by, conserve, store away, more...

Opposite:
spend, waste, squander

Types:
hoard, pile up, accumulate, amass, gather, stockpile, more...

Phrases:
save up money, save up for, more...

Adjectives:
saving, reservatory, w/o, set-aside, backup, reserved, fine, sold out, remainder, custom, deliver



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