0 a container in the shape of a pig that children use to save money and which has a small opening in the top for putting coins in. -- sparegris
That includes the trade unions and their pension funds and the person who has a piggy bank tucked under the bed in the third bedroom of his council house.
In the case of one family it was found that their nine-year-old son had £63 in his piggy bank, and in the case of another family the child had saved £33.
It is seen as a sort of piggy bank without a bottom, or a dustbin that never has to be emptied.
I do not regard a pension scheme as a sort of "piggy bank".
Instead, it makes more sense if every pigfarmer sets up his own reserve, i.e. if every pigfarmer has his own piggy bank.
The peace dividend can look all too like a piggy bank.
A piggy bank at the side of the book would solve all those problems.
One would not want to encourage people to regard their gas meters as a sort of "piggy bank".
