money-guard

English

Alternative forms

• money guard

Noun

money-guard (plural money-guards)

1. A person who guards money for someone else, often to prevent it from being spent on unscheduled needs.
   • 2010, Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, →ISBN, page 9:

     Hamid himself also used a money-guard, storing $8 with his employer while waiting for an opportunity to send it down to the family home.

Synonyms

• money-keeper