| 单词 | penny bank |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny bank penny bank n. now historical a savings bank at which a sum as low as a penny may be deposited. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > savings bank saving bank1808 savings bank1813 saving institution1816 savings institution1819 trustee bank1841 penny bank1849 post-office savings-bank1861 1849 Times 17 Dec. 5/5 The expenditure of the Hull penny bank will not exceed 70l. for the first year. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxiv. 557 A Penny Bank, for savings of amounts too small to be received at the ordinary savings banks, was opened in Jersey on the 1st of January, 1862. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Lambert, Brooke He founded a penny bank, a soup kitchen, a working-man's club, and a mutual improvement society. 1990 A. Burton Cityscapes xii. 139/2 But there was still room for commerce among the benevolents: the old Yorkshire Penny Bank was built here and there is a glorious shop front, a real Victorian extravaganza, in Manor Row. < as lemmas |
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