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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nest egg
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eileen and Harry had to dip into their retirement nest egg to pay for their son's college fees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it is also a good idea to keep a nest egg for emergencies.
▪ In the intervening years, as property taxes ate away at their nest egg, their proposals for other developments fell flat.
▪ Royal Liver is also sitting on a large nest egg.
▪ The nest egg grew and grew; improbably, unbelievably, it grew.
▪ When properly managed, they offer the prospect of a tidy retirement nest egg.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nest egg

nest egg \nest egg\, n.

  1. An egg left in the nest to prevent the hen from forsaking it, and to induce her to lay more in the same place.

  2. Hence, (figuratively), Money set aside in a special fund to be used for special occasions, or more commonly, for retirement; as, she set aside a large hunk of her salary every month and had a considerable nest egg for her retirement.

Wiktionary
nest egg

n. 1 A natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there. 2 (context idiomatic English) A savings; a reserve of money. 3 An egg squash.

WordNet
nest egg

  1. n. a fund of money put by as a reserve [syn: savings]

  2. device consisting of an artificial egg left in a nest to induce hens to lay their eggs in it

Usage examples of "nest egg".

If this hits the news, I can guarantee that we'll never recover the cash, and no matter what anybody says, a loss like that hurts everybody, every kid with a savings account, every couple needing a loan, every retired citizen with a nest egg.

He received a large sum for his service in the Congo, a decent nest egg you might say, but have I seen it?

In one terrible week the tidy little nest egg hed built up had decreased in value to less than half of what it had been before.

But she give nest egg to have her dream or her palm dukkered, if she think it maybe dukker affair of love.

By then, they had better have found a niche, something they were good at, and started their nest egg.