Noun
life savings pl (plural only)
A large sum of money one has saved over a considerable number of years.
She spent her life savings on a new car.
A couple has lost £95,000 of life savings after sending it to copycat fraudsters cloning a top investment company. Source: Internet
After 30 years’ investing through his financial adviser, Barry Kloogh, Mr A trusted his and his wife’s life savings were safe and secure, and never thought obtaining the $11,000 he needed would be an issue. Source: Internet
Among the more than 130 people who have contacted them since the economic crisis began are those planting tomatoes on their balconies, new farmers with small plots and those investing their life savings in farmland. Source: Internet
A BRITISH conman suspected of cheating a woman out of her life savings worth nearly €1 million may be using a false name and Swiss passport to cover his tracks. Source: Internet
Craig Smith used his life savings to turn a former firehouse in Kingston, Wash., into the tiny town's only movie house, the Firehouse Theater. Source: Internet
Due to his frugality, Carver's life savings totaled $60,000, all of which he donated in his last years and at his death to the Carver Museum and to the George Washington Carver Foundation. Source: Internet