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 Translation for 'penny bank' from English to French
NOUN   a penny bank | penny banks
SYNO penny bank | piggy bank
fin.
cache-maille {f} [aussi : cachemaille] [suisse, mérid.] [tirelire]
penny bank [money box]
Partial Matches
bicyc.
grand-bi {m}
penny-farthing
rapiat {adj} [fam.]penny-pinching
fin.
économies {f.pl} de bouts de chandelle
penny-pinching
pingre {m} {f} [péj.]penny-pincher
mycol.T
cèpe {m} de Bordeaux [Boletus edulis]
penny bun [Br.]
filmF
La Chanson du passé
Penny Serenade [George Stevens]
broutilles {f.pl}penny-ante stuff [esp. Am.] [coll.]
fin.
coûter bonbon [fam.]
to cost a pretty penny [coll.] [idiom]
fin.
calculer au plus juste
to calculate down to the last penny
aller au petit coin [fam.] [loc.]to spend a penny [Br.] [coll.] [idiom]
hydro.
berge {f} [de rivière, canal]
bank
aviat.
virer sur l'aile
to bank
comm.écon.fin.
banque {f}
bank
météo.
s'amonceler
to bank up
cuis.sociol.
banque {f} alimentaire
food bank
fin.
banque {f} extraterritoriale
offshore bank
écon.fin.
Banque {f} mondiale
World Bank
fin.
cache-maille {f} [aussi : cachemaille] [suisse, mérid.] [tirelire]
piggy bank
hydro.
rive {f} concave
cut bank
hydro.
berge {f} concave
cut bank
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Usage Examples English
  • Piggy bank (sometimes penny bank or money box) is the traditional name of a coin container normally used by children.
  • As an innovator in alleviating poverty, he set up this country's first 'penny bank', in Ryton, allowing those with small incomes to borrow at rates they could afford.
  • In the mid-1850s, he helped found the Yorkshire Penny Bank (to encourage workers to save), and he worked closely with the Halifax Permanent Building Society (later the Halifax Building Society) to promote home ownership through his model village Akroydon.
  • Crosland was a member of the Mechanics' Institute, and a patron of the Yorkshire Penny Bank.
  • on the maximum amount an individual investor could deposit (on the face of it, a strange objection from a penny bank).

  • Cairns Bank (formerly Cairns Penny Bank) operates its only branch at 24 Grafton Street (...).
  • His father Harold was a branch manager with the Yorkshire Penny Bank (now Yorkshire Bank), and he was something of a disciplinarian at home.
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