What does squirrel away mean?

squirrel away means "save up as for future use".

What is another word for squirrel away?

Close synonyms include hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up. 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 squirrel away a common word?

squirrel away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Squirrel away — meaning and 5 synonyms

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
save up as for future use
Synonymshoard stash cache lay away hive up
Broadersave

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What does squirrel away mean?: squirrel away means "save up as for future use".

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