savings bank

1. 1.

   a thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks

   Broaderthrift institution

   Narrowermutual savings bankfederal savings bank
2. 2.

   a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home

   “the coin bank was empty”

   Synonymscoin bankmoney boxbank

   Broadercontainer

   Narrowerpiggy bank

Questions about savings bank

What does savings bank mean?

savings bank means "a thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for savings bank?

Close synonyms include coin bank, money box, bank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is savings bank a common word?

savings bank is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.