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In order to keep to their promise to freeze tuition at current rates, the two sprawling public higher education systems must trim their budgets and break open their emergency piggy banks.
—Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2025
The piggy banks are a translucent green color and have Frontier's logo on the front.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
Comparatively speaking, that decision was not as bad as the one by Steward’s board to ignore, intentionally or otherwise, de la Torre turning the company into his own personal piggy bank and jeopardizing the care of millions of patients.
—Mark Rogers, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2024
In the former, every elimination will increase the payout collected in the piggy bank, which will drop at the end for the victor to collect.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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“Piggy bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piggy%20bank. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
piggy bank
noun
: a bank for coins often shaped like a pig
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