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- verb Present participle of
squirrel . - noun The
storing of something when inabundance against a time when it will bescarce (after the manner of asquirrel )
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Examples
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Oh, once you realize it should be called squirreling, you've got to know it's insane.
Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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I heartily second your sentiments about 'squirreling' scents away; joy should not be postponed.
Love In the Afternoon: Demi-Jour by Houbigant Marina Geigert 2008
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He didn't seem to have to think this through very long when he said, "Well, I can tell you that if I'm getting married with an end date in mind, I'll be squirreling some cash away during those eighteen years."
Phyllis Berger: Do You Promise to Love and to Cherish... Until the Contract Runs Out? Phyllis Berger 2011
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I did that when we went squirreling it was his ‘Quest of the Golden Girl’ I read to you.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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He didn't seem to have to think this through very long when he said, "Well, I can tell you that if I'm getting married with an end date in mind, I'll be squirreling some cash away during those eighteen years."
Phyllis Berger: Do You Promise to Love and to Cherish... Until the Contract Runs Out? Phyllis Berger 2011
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He didn't seem to have to think this through very long when he said, "Well, I can tell you that if I'm getting married with an end date in mind, I'll be squirreling some cash away during those eighteen years."
Phyllis Berger: Do You Promise to Love and to Cherish... Until the Contract Runs Out? Phyllis Berger 2011
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• The city has been squirreling over $3 billion away for a rainy day in the Retiree Trust Fund -- $1 billion of that could reduce the deficit this year.
Allison Sesso: The "Budget Dance": It's Time to Change the Steps Allison Sesso 2011
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• The city has been squirreling over $3 billion away for a rainy day in the Retiree Trust Fund -- $1 billion of that could reduce the deficit this year.
Allison Sesso: The "Budget Dance": It's Time to Change the Steps Allison Sesso 2011
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Indeed, high income inequality of the sort America is experiencing now prolongs a recession or depression, because when the rich are "squirreling away" so much of the country's money, "that makes it hard for the economy to grow or recover," she said.
A New Big Idea: Create Jobs And Reduce Poverty By Doubling The Charitable Deduction Dan Froomkin 2011
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I wish my other ways of squirreling away money had done half as well as the measly $50 I sent Josh when he decided to crank the thing up not so long ago, and asked for a bit of reader support and donations for what became TPM! joe from Lowell Says:
frogapplause commented on the word squirreling
Scientologists use the term "squirreling" to refer to unauthorized alterations of their teachings or methods.
May 4, 2009