save up's Usage Examples:

Roman slaves were paid a wage (peculium), which they could save up to buy themselves freedom.

World War I and Arnon's readings of the works of Jack London led him to save up his money to head to California.

marries another African woman named Lydia, and it takes three more years to save up her freedom price.

Recently, with marketization people are able to save up money and buy the goods they need.

This is expected to save up to 100,000 litres of diesel fuel per year.

conjunction with a Jewish-Romanian businessman named György Mandl, helped save up to 40,000 Central European Jews, most of them from Hungary, from Nazi persecution.

This implies that they usually don't save up a lot in one period to spend furiously in the next period, but keep their.

Recycling one ton of wood can save up to 18,000,000 btus of energy.

[ambiguous] After teaching, he worked to save up for college tuition as a customs clerk and insurance underwriter.

Synonyms:

deliver; salve; rescue; salvage; relieve;

Antonyms:

enable; disagree; defy; surrender; exclude;