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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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... hill rapidly and carelessly. Hugh, stung by pain and anger, threw himself over the rocks, and Sylvie was too proud to show her timidity or to ask for help. She crept and climbed up and down, saving herself with groping hand, letting one foot test the distances before she put the other down. At last the rattle of his progress sounded so far below that she quavered: "Aren't you going to wait ...

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... sometimes several different floors, and when they are winnowing the grain on windy days the whole village becomes covered with an inch or two of chaff. I am glad to find these threshing-floors in the villages, because they give me an excellent opportunity to ride and satisfy the people, thus saving me no end of ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... to see what ruthless conquest meant even if it seemed to be far away. Therefore, we acted promptly and we hope with efficiency and have since carried on the work in the sphere allotted to us by nature with a devotion that has never flagged. It has been our duty not to reason why, but to help in saving the world without bargains, or dickerings, or suggestions, thus bearing our part in the rescue of ...

— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

... upsetting those solemn, engagements by incurring the Levitical penalty of contact with a corpse? There was but a mere chance that they could do any good. This person was entirely unknown to them; his life might not be worth saving, for he might be a rascal; and, on the other hand, there were sacred duties—duties to their God. What priest or Levite, with proper religious instincts, could ...

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... hard work and increasing anxieties of forty years of authorship, when I saw her she was as fresh and independent as a skylark. She was a good hater as well as a good praiser, and she left nothing worth saving in ...

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