nest egg
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3.4
- noun
- /nɛst ɛg/
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- So in thirty years, you will need a nest egg of approximately $1.65 million to $3.5 million.
- retirement nest egg
- build a nest egg
- a nice nest egg
And then, you know, once you have that kind of nest egg of sorts, you can then break out.
- And then, you know, once you have that kind of nest egg of sorts, you can then break out.
- You know, you sell off a few of your, you know, nest eggs to cover the loss.
- So I'd built up a little like nest egg and then I went and bought like a coach bag, like something like that.
- Whatever nice little nest egg that he's got.
- Well, yeah, he's that's that's sort of the the nest egg, right?
Examples
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I have zero debt right now and I have a nice little nest egg in the bank that I've been saving up.
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We've built up quite a little nest egg.
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It's his little nest egg for the future.
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And I never wanted to be broke again, so I put a little nest egg together.
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Before I went away, I put aside a little nest egg.
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A little retirement nest egg.
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In my opinion, advisors with high fees are eating away at their clients' nest eggs.
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Between appreciation, dividends, and interest, your nest egg should be able to handle a 4% reduction each year.
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You've saved up a little nest egg and are ready to dive into the real estate market.
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It's important to set aside a nest egg for retirement to ensure financial security in your later years.
Synonyms
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1.0
Money put aside, often in a bank, to use later or for emergencies
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3.0
A plan where you save money to use after you stop working
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3.1
Money saved to give you regular income after you stop working
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3.1
An account that holds money to use after you stop working
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An account for saving money to use after you stop working
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Morphology
nest + egg
The image of eggs kept in a nest suggests something put aside and protected for the future, so a learner who knows 'nest' and 'egg' could plausibly infer a sense of saved/stored resources. However, mapping that image specifically to a sum of money for retirement is a conventionalized metaphor and not fully predictable from the parts without prior exposure, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Nest egg meaning saved money may come from the farm idea of putting a real or fake egg in a hen's nest as a small reserve. One popular story says people thought of that kept egg as something saved for later, so the phrase came to mean 'a sum of money saved' for the future.