Definition of "lay aside" [lay aside]

• Accumulate money for future use (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Once installed, and in command of her own work-women, she believed she had sufficient tact and ability to attract a fashionable clientèle; and if the business succeeded she could gradually lay aside money enough to discharge her debt to Trenor."
• "Won't you lay aside your dust-coats and have a cool drink?"
• "We can now begin to lay aside the word lodge and say house."