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squirrel

2 verb
     
squirrel2 past tense and past participle squirrelled, present participle squirrelling British English, past tense and past participle squirreled, present participle squirreling American English

squirrel something ↔ away

phrasal verb
to keep something in a safe place to use later [= stash away]:
By December I had $300 squirreled away.
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