Definition of "save up" [save up]

• To accumulate money, especially for a specific, planned expenditure. (verb)

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• "All over Lesbos, where everyone is horse-mad, men save up all year for this event, and drink, they say, for three days and nights."
• "Most of the trannies are small-framed, young gay men from Brazil who save up their money, come to Italy, get the operation, and make a good living selling their bodies to Italian men."