Akademik

salt away
verb
keep or lay aside for future use (Freq. 1)
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store grain for the winter

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The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

• Syn: ↑store, ↑hive away, ↑lay in, ↑put in, ↑stack away, ↑stash away
• Derivationally related forms: ↑store (for: ↑store), ↑storage (for: ↑store)
• Hypernyms: ↑keep, ↑hold on
• Hyponyms:
↑bin, ↑computerize, ↑computerise, ↑victual, ↑roll up, ↑collect, ↑accumulate, ↑pile up, ↑amass, ↑compile, ↑hoard, ↑hive
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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transitive verb or salt down
1. : to prepare (as meat or eggs) with or pack in salt for preserving
2. : to lay away (as money) : invest safely : save

salt away part of their … income each year for retirement — Wall Street Journal

making quite a little … salting down my commissions — Elisabeth Thomas

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salt away
1. To store away
2. To hoard, esp in a miserly way
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Main Entry: ↑salt

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ˌsalt a ˈway [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they salt away he/she/it salts away present participle salting away past tense salted away past participle salted away] phrasal verb
to save money for the future, often hiding it illegally
Thesaurus: to save money, or to be careful with moneyhyponym to buy somethingsynonym
Main entry: salt

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salt away [phrasal verb]
salt (something) away or salt away (something) informal
1 : to put (money) in a safe place especially secretly or dishonestly

He salted millions away in a foreign bank account.

2 US : to make your victory in (a game, contest, etc.) certain

They salted away the game by scoring 21 points in the last quarter.

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Main Entry: ↑salt

Useful english dictionary. 2012.