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saving
[ sey-ving ]
adjective
- tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- compensating; redeeming:
a saving sense of humor.
Synonyms: redemptory
- thrifty; economical:
a saving housekeeper.
- making a reservation:
a saving clause.
noun
- a reduction or lessening of expenditure or outlay:
a saving of 10 percent.
- Law. a reservation or exception.
preposition
- except:
Nothing remains saving these ruins.
- with all due respect to or for:
saving your presence.
conjunction
- except; save.
saving
/ ˈseɪvɪŋ /
adjective
- tending to save or preserve
- redeeming or compensating (esp in the phrase saving grace )
- thrifty or economical
- law denoting or relating to an exception or reservation
a saving clause in an agreement
noun
- preservation or redemption, esp from loss or danger
- economy or avoidance of waste
- reduction in cost or expenditure
a saving of 100 dollars
- anything saved
- plural money saved for future use
- law an exception or reservation
preposition
- with the exception of
conjunction
- except
Derived Forms
- ˈsavingly, adverb
Other Words From
- saving·ly adverb
- non·saving adjective
- un·saving adjective
- un·saving·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Just another example of a guy in a John B. Stetson hat saving the day.
Can we provide better services to millions more Americans while actually saving billions of dollars?
Now, the goalkeeper is out with a memoir about his life until that point: The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them.
But it remains a moral crime to vilify good cops who have made the city safe, saving thousands of lives.
We thanked them on stage for saving our asses and supporting indie music.
The carrying of these heavy government debts is a question of the future production of goods, of commerce, and of saving.
Steam machinery would accomplish more than nine-tenths of all the work, besides saving the expense of all the powder.
I think it is better to make them ourselves, for if we do not, some others will, for there must be a saving of coal by condensing.
Tom pitched forward heavily, saving himself and his animal from an ignominious accident just in the nick of time.
So I put on my life-saving waistcoat and blew it out; clapped my new gas-mask on my head and entered.
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