"saving" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Countless numbers lost their meagre savings during the drastic currency devaluation of 2009, and from 150,000 to 200,000 people are being held in labour camps and jails.
- Re hyperinflation I am not in work and live off some meagre savings - hoping for the upturn.
- Hamid didn't sell his first carpet for nearly three months, by which time his meagre savings had all but disappeared.
- He soon has more than he can stomach, making money, by bilking the poor, out of their meagre savings, with junk bonds.
- He used his meagre savings - and a pledge against next year's pay - to purchase a plot of ground, a marble sarcophagus and a statue above the grave.
- As a result of this change, 60,000 elderly people whose meagre savings had previously reduced their pension entitlement received the full state pension.
- The BOE thinks along these lines: it's not like the interest payment on your meagre savings is going to change you life, is it?
- Elderly woman attacked and robbed of her meagre savings.
- She finally had to find her solace in a bottle of Johnny Walker, bought with her meagre savings from her job in the laundry.
- I also got a 2% dividend on my meagre savings - I emphasise "meagre".
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