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What is a piggy bank?

What is a piggy bank? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small container, sometimes in the form of a pig, to store small saved coins in. Often the "bank" must be broken open to retrieve the contents.
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We settled in at a cosy table set with fine china and featuring a ceramic piggy bank centerpiece.
He counted out the entire contents of his piggy bank to help tsunami victims after seeing newspaper and television coverage of the disaster.
Every few months, when his piggy bank is full, we take it to a real bank, run it through the coin sorter, change the total into bills.
Then she directed her attention towards the Russian mafia, which she said had infiltrated some 300 Swiss companies and were using Switzerland as a piggy bank to launder money.
Unfortunately, some legal discussions in effect have analogized payment to a piggy bank, where a person's physical money is paid in, possibly mixed, and then extracted.
The government has been borrowing money out of the Social Security trust fund like it's their own private piggy bank.

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