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save up
Accumulate something for a particular purpose, as in Jan had been saving up her allowance for a new bicycle. [First half of 1800s]
Example Sentences
Mazin: Over the last few years, what’s happening is, for shows that are coming out week by week, people will now save up three at a time.
"I turned off all the heating and used all my saved up logs in my log burner," she said.
She and her boyfriend currently live with his parents, and she said saving up to move out without her inheritance would take a very long time.
A lot of Lilleth's friends were originally planning on staying in Guernsey but now there are "serious conversations going on" and "people making plans and saving up to move to the UK".
Miss Sindall, who worked as a florist, had also been doing part-time bar work at the Wellington Pub in Bebington to save up for her upcoming wedding to her fiancé, David Beattie.
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