LAY ASIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lay aside mean? 

• LAY ASIDE (verb)
  The verb LAY ASIDE has 1 sense:

1. accumulate money for future use

  Familiarity information: LAY ASIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAY ASIDE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accumulate money for future use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

lay aside; save; save up

Context example:

He saves half his salary

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lay aside"):

cache; hive up; hoard; lay away; squirrel away; stash (save up as for future use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They lay aside the money

 Context examples 

Catherine meanwhile—the anxious, agitated, happy, feverish Catherine—said not a word; but her glowing cheek and brightened eye made her mother trust that this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time, and gladly therefore did she lay aside the first volume of The Mirror for a future hour.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In March of that year Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that the famous private agent lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)