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Saving

noun

1.

An act of economizing; reduction in cost. Synonym: economy. "There was a saving of 50 cents"

2.

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, rescue. "A surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

3.

The activity of protecting something from loss or danger. Synonym: preservation.

adjective

1.

Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin. Synonyms: redeeming, redemptive. "Redemptive (or redeeming) love"

2.

Characterized by thriftiness.

Save

verb

(past & past part. saved; pres. part. saving)

1.

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm. Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve.

2.

To keep up and reserve for personal or special use. Synonym: preserve.

3.

Bring into safety. Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through.

4.

Spend less; buy at a reduced price.

5.

Accumulate money for future use. Synonyms: lay aside, save up.

6.

Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort. Synonym: make unnecessary. "I'll save you the trouble" , "This will save you a lot of time"

7.

Save from sins. Synonyms: deliver, redeem.

8.

Refrain from harming. Synonym: spare.

9.

Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of. Synonyms: economise, economize. "The less fortunate will have to economize now"

10.

Retain rights to. Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open. "Keep my seat, please" , "Keep open the possibility of a merger"

11.

Record data on a computer. Synonym: write.

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"Saving" Quotes from Famous Books

... lo'ed me weel, and sought me for his bride; But saving a croun he had naething else beside: To make the croun a pund, young Jamie gaed to sea; And the croun and the pund ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... on me, Dominie," complained the Little Red Doctor to me. "But, at that, we're going to give him a fight. She's clear grit, that youngster is. She's got a philosophy of life, too. I don't know where she got it, or just what it is, but it's there. Oh, she's worth saving, Dominie." ...

— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... door?" said the parson, cheerfully, after knocking his head against black beams and just saving his legs down shallow and unexpected steps on his way to the kitchen—beams so unfelt and steps so familiar to the women that it had never struck them that the long passage was not the most straightforward walk a man could take—"I think you said ...

— Tales from Many Sources - Vol. V • Various

... tax, possesses no specific saving quality of its own. If the tax is merely a "just equivalent" of other taxes it is valid however calculated.[677] Conversely, when such taxes are in addition to other taxes then their fate will be determined by the same rules as would ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... power to put this in practice, and made all kinds of preparations for war, hoping, at least, by these means to obtain better terms from Augustus. In fact, she had been more in love with Antony's fortune than his person; and if she could have fallen upon any method of saving herself, though even at his expense, there is little doubt but she would have embraced it with gladness. 29. She had still hopes from the power of her charms, though she was almost arrived at the age of forty: and was desirous ...

— Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome • Oliver Goldsmith

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