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Saving   /sˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
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



... while acting as regent. The chancellor, who was a humane man, reconciled it to his conscience by a popular opinion that one negro could perform, without detriment to his health, the labor of several Indians, and that therefore it was a great saving of human suffering. So easy is it for interest to wrap itself up in plausible argument! He might, moreover, have thought the welfare of the Africans but little affected by the change. They were accustomed to slavery in their own country, and they were ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving
... corresponded, and Lady Neville easily induced Mrs. Gaunt to co-operate with her in her benevolent acts, especially in saving young women, who had been betrayed, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various
... of the frost, presented an unequal surface; the sledge was often nearly turned over, but they succeeded in saving it. ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... cutter, got into her, and inhumanly pushed off for the shore. The empty Jolly boat was turned adrift in full view of the unhappy people on board, the master turning a deaf ear to the solicitations of Captain Kennedy, who begged him to pull in toward the stern, in order to discuss some means of saving ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond
... because the events of the last few days had convinced him that the only hope of saving the situation—saving it, that is, from the Afrikander nationalist point of view—lay in prompt and energetic action on his part. On June 23rd Mr. Schreiner had been informed by the High Commissioner of the intention of the Home Government to "complete" ...
— Lord Milner's Work in South Africa - From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 • W. Basil Worsfold


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