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What does save up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word save up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money, especially for a specific, planned expenditure.
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The foreign workers tend to stay for a couple of years, learn English and save up a nest egg to set them up on their return home.
It took time to save up the money to buy a little Sony battery-powered cassette recorder, but finally I ditched my reel-to-reel tapes.
Children put their pocket money into a bank account to save up to buy a bicycle.
But as it's not stand-alone and looks a bit fiddly to install and run, it's probably less hassle to save up for a new camera.
Until 1988 there was no other way for Andrew and millions of others to save up for a pension.
He was on a gap year before going to university and was working at a firm of solicitors in the centre of Bradford to save up for a trip to Tanzania in the summer.

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