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Definition of Lay away
1. Verb. Save up as for future use. "They lay away the money in the closet"
Generic synonyms: Lay Aside, Save, Save Up
Derivative terms: Cache, Cache, Hoard, Hoarder, Stash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lay Away
Literary usage of Lay away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1900)
"lay away, ie lay aside, Ezk 26" ' Then all the princes of the sea shall come down
from their thrones, and lay away their robes ' ; Ad. Est 14a ' Esther ..."
2. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"For the first lay-away, an old sour liquor of twelve to fourteen degrees is used.
The stock is allowed to remain in this layer for two weeks, when the stock ..."
3. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Little wind at NW by W. We lay away SW by W. One of our fleet as far to the
eastward as we ... We lay away NNE and were in 39 degrees 12 minutes latitude. ..."
4. The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English Dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1845)
"7b lay away (stake) money, mettre au jeu. (Bure.) Tu lay bare, découvrir ; exposer.
(Before.) To lay (things) before others, mettre (une chose) sous les ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"It is the custom in America thus to lay away the leather in vats six or seven
times, the liquors of the first lay- away being the weakest, and the time the ..."
6. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... lay away, store, treasure [a p.'s memory, jonkun muisto] ; (varalta) ... (1.
keep 1. lay by 1. lay away 1. store 1. reserve I. Save) for future needs; ..."
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