S: (v) have, have got, hold (have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense) "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master's degree from Harvard"
S: (v) sustain, keep, maintain (supply with necessities and support) "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep"
S: (v) deny, refuse (refuse to let have) "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance"
S: (v) withhold, keep back (hold back; refuse to hand over or share) "The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room"
S: (v) freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise (prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)) "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
S: (v) keep to oneself (withhold information) "I kept your little secret to myself all these years"
S: (v) deny (refuse to grant, as of a petition or request) "The dean denied the students' request for more physics courses"; "the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day"
S: (v) reserve (hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency) "they held back their applause in anticipation"
S: (v) devote (set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use) "this land was devoted to mining"
S: (v) deprive (keep from having, keeping, or obtaining)
S: (v) wean, ablactate (gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk) "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"; "The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle"
S: (v) bankrupt, ruin, break, smash (reduce to bankruptcy) "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
S: (v) recruit, levy, raise (cause to assemble or enlist in the military) "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
S: (v) unionize, unionise (recruit for a union or organize into a union) "We don't allow people to come into our plant and try to unionize the workers"
S: (v) book (record a charge in a police register) "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"
S: (v) ticket, fine (issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty) "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"
S: (v) amerce (punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court)
S: (v) conserve, husband, economize, economise (use cautiously and frugally) "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
S: (v) retrench (tighten one's belt; use resources carefully)
S: (v) victual (lay in provisions) "The vessel victualled before the long voyage"
S: (v) roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard (get or gather together) "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
S: (v) scrape, scrape up, scratch, come up (gather (money or other resources) together over time) "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
S: (v) nickel-and-dime (accumulate gradually) "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family"
S: (v) lump, chunk (put together indiscriminately) "lump together all the applicants"
S: (v) catch (take in and retain) "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater"
S: (v) fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability) "fund a medical care plan"
S: (v) fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)
S: (v) hive (store, like bees) "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"
S: (v) store (find a place for and put away for storage) "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"
S: (v) ensile (store in a silo) "ensile fodder for the cows"
S: (v) retain, hold, keep back, hold back (secure and keep for possible future use or application) "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"
S: (v) keep (look after; be the keeper of; have charge of) "He keeps the shop when I am gone"
S: (v) conserve, preserve, maintain, keep up (keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction) "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
S: (v) mummify (remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it) "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaohs"
S: (v) plastinate (preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes) "The doctor plastinates bodies to teach anatomy to his students"
S: (v) hold the line (hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant)
S: (v) keep, maintain (maintain for use and service) "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"
S: (v) keep (have as a supply) "I always keep batteries in the freezer"; "keep food for a week in the pantry"; "She keeps a sixpack and a week's worth of supplies in the refrigerator"
S: (v) bear, hold (have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices) "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade"
S: (v) carry (have or possess something abstract) "I carry her image in my mind's eye"; "I will carry the secret to my grave"; "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head"; "I carry a lot of life insurance"