| Main Entry: | savings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provision for future |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, ace in hole, cache, fund, funds, gleanings, harvest, hoard, investment, kitty, mattress full, means, money in the bank, nest egg, property, provision, provisions, rainy day fund, reserve, reserves, resources, riches, sock, stake, stockpile, store |
Antonyms: |
loss |
| Main Entry: | bank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial institution |
Synonyms: |
coffer, countinghouse, credit union, depository, exchequer, fund, hoard, investment firm, repository, reserve, reservoir, safe, savings, stock, stockpile, store, storehouse, thrift, treasury, trust company, vault |
| Main Entry: | capital |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial assets |
Synonyms: |
CD, IRA, business, cash, estate, finances, financing, fortune, funds, gold, interests, investment, kitty, means, money, nest egg, principal, property, resources, savings, stake, stock, substance, treasure, ways and means, wealth, wherewithal |
| Notes: | the word capitol is from the Roman Capitoline Hill and the similarity between capitol and capital is purely coincidental; capitol applies to the building and capital to the seat of a government |
| Main Entry: | cash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money; assets |
Synonyms: |
banknote, bread, buck*, bullion, cabbage, chicken feed, coin, coinage, currency, dinero, dough, funds, green stuff, investment, legal tender, lot, mazumah, note, payment, pledge, principal, ready assets, refund, remuneration, reserve, resources, riches, savings, scratch*, security, skins, stock, supply, treasure, wampum, wherewithal |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
Synonyms: |
attention, care, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, control, custody, directing, economy, governing, guardianship, guarding, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preserving, protecting, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvation, saving, stewardship, storage, supervising, supervision, sustentation, upkeep |
Antonyms: |
destruction, neglect, spending, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction, diminution |
Synonyms: |
cutback, decrease, decrement, downsize, economy, fall, lessening, lowering, reduction, saving |
Antonyms: |
increase |
| Main Entry: | deliverance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liberation |
Synonyms: |
acquittal, delivery, emancipation, extrication, freeing, redemption, release, rescue, salvation, saving |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economizing |
Synonyms: |
avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
generosity, lavishness, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | funds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cash reserve |
Synonyms: |
accounts receivable, affluence, assets, backing, bankroll, belongings, bread, budget, capital, collateral, currency, dough, earnings, finance, fluid assets, hard cash, kitty, lucre, means, money, money in the bank, money on hand, nest egg, nut*, petty cash, pork barrel, possessions, proceeds, profits, property, ready money, resources, revenue, savings, scratch*, securities, specie, stakes, store*, stuff*, substance, treasure, wealth, wherewithal, winnings |
Antonyms: |
debt |
| Main Entry: | means |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth, resources |
Synonyms: |
ace in the hole, affluence, assets, backing, bankroll, budget, bundle, capital, dough, estate, finances, fortune, funds, holdings, income, intangibles, kitty, money, nest egg, nut*, pocket, possessions, property, purse, rainy day, reserves, revenue, riches, savings, securities, sock, stake, stuff, substance, ways and means, wherewithal |
Antonyms: |
paucity, poorness, shame |