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san.

financial, temporal-savings scheme; the participants periodically contribute a quota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others

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noun/ˈsan/[ˈsãn]/san/[sãn]
  1. financial, temporal-savings scheme; the participants periodically contribute a quota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others

    Dominican-Republic · masculine
Where this word comes from

Apocopic form of santo. Inherited from Old Spanish santo, sancto, from Latin sānctus.

noun/ˈsan/[ˈsãn]/san/[sãn]
  1. san; the Greek letter Ϻ, ϻ

    feminine
adj/ˈsan/[ˈsãn]/san/[sãn]
  1. apocopic form of santo (“saint”)

    abbreviation · alt-of · apocopic · masculine
Where this word comes from

Apocopic form of santo. Inherited from Old Spanish santo, sancto, from Latin sānctus.

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