squirrelling

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Everyone wants cash, and those who have it are squirrelling it away in central banks.

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  • For years the global rich have been happily squirrelling away trillions of dollars in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. —  Socialist Worker (Britain)
  • The big difference with the Tory plan is that it aims to persuade everyone else to jettison splashing out in favour of squirrelling away. —  Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
  • Crazy gun owners can also be crazy survivalists squirrelling away for Armageddon. —  bison survival blog
  • Over the past 12 months, banks have been squirrelling away cash and, where possible, quietly nursing their losses. —  whoar.co.nz
  • But there's Ms Westhoven, on national TV, actually raising the idiotic notion of depositors withdrawing all of their funds and hiding the money in a closet or squirrelling it away "in the mattress"? —  Expat Yank
 

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