saving

[ sey-ving ]

adjective

1. tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
2. compensating; redeeming:

   a saving sense of humor.

   Synonyms: redemptory

3. thrifty; economical:

   a saving housekeeper.

4. making a reservation:

   a saving clause.

noun

1. a reduction or lessening of expenditure or outlay:

   a saving of 10 percent.

2. something that is saved. save.
3. savings, sums of money saved save by economy and laid away.
4. Law. a reservation or exception.

preposition

1. except:

   Nothing remains saving these ruins.

2. with all due respect to or for:

   saving your presence.

conjunction

1. except; save.

saving

/ ˈseɪvɪŋ /

adjective

1. tending to save or preserve
2. redeeming or compensating (esp in the phrase saving grace )
3. thrifty or economical
4. law denoting or relating to an exception or reservation

   a saving clause in an agreement

noun

1. preservation or redemption, esp from loss or danger
2. economy or avoidance of waste
3. reduction in cost or expenditure

   a saving of 100 dollars

4. anything saved
5. plural money saved for future use
6. law an exception or reservation

preposition

1. with the exception of

conjunction

1. except

Derived Forms

• ˈsavingly, adverb

Other Words From

• saving·ly adverb
• non·saving adjective
• un·saving adjective
• un·saving·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of saving¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; save ¹, -ing ², -ing ¹

Example Sentences

One of the big benefits that is touted for RSAs is time savings.

From Search Engine Land

We feel like 20% is the bare minimum you need to have savings, to not struggle, and to make ends meet at the end of the month…You can’t have passionate employees if every month they are worried about how they are going to make ends meet.

From Fortune

Of course, cost savings also make the numbers look good, sources say.

From Digiday

Currently, investors can make returns on cash starting at 3 percent—a relatively high figure at a time when even “high yield” savings accounts are paying under 1 percent.

From Fortune

In these reviews, cost savings are still a crucial factor in those decisions, according to an exec who has managed some of these reviews.

From Digiday

Just another example of a guy in a John B. Stetson hat saving the day.

From The Daily Beast

Can we provide better services to millions more Americans while actually saving billions of dollars?

From The Daily Beast

Now, the goalkeeper is out with a memoir about his life until that point: The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them.

From The Daily Beast

But it remains a moral crime to vilify good cops who have made the city safe, saving thousands of lives.

From The Daily Beast

We thanked them on stage for saving our asses and supporting indie music.

From The Daily Beast

The carrying of these heavy government debts is a question of the future production of goods, of commerce, and of saving.

From Project Gutenberg

Steam machinery would accomplish more than nine-tenths of all the work, besides saving the expense of all the powder.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Tom pitched forward heavily, saving himself and his animal from an ignominious accident just in the nick of time.

From Project Gutenberg

So I put on my life-saving waistcoat and blew it out; clapped my new gas-mask on my head and entered.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• preserving