Usually means: Savings accumulated for future use.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. nest egg: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nest egg: Merriam-Webster
  3. nest egg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nest egg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nest egg: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nest egg: Vocabulary.com
  7. nest-egg, nest egg: Wordnik
  8. nest egg: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nest egg: Wiktionary
  10. nest egg: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nest egg: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nest egg: Dictionary.com
  13. Nest Egg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. nest egg: Rhymezone
  15. Nest-egg: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. nest egg: FreeDictionary.org
  17. nest egg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. nest egg: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Nest egg: Phrase Finder

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Nest egg: bizterms.net
  4. Nest Egg: Investopedia
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. nest egg: Legal dictionary
  7. Nest Egg: Financial dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nest egg: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nest_eggs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nest egg)

noun:  A natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there.
noun:  (figurative) A saving; a reserve of money.
noun:  An egg squash.

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