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[ noun ] a fund of money put by as a reserve

Synonyms

nest_egg

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

Mr._A. , her fellow townsman , also experienced a nervous_breakdown just as_soon_as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife - a woman suffering from an incurable disease , multiple_sclerosis - and himself .

The victims of the quacks are frequently poor people , like Mr._A. , who scrape_up their life savings to offer as a sacrifice to Doctor_Fraud 's avarice .

Related terms

fund save

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