a. | 1. | Preserving; rescuing. | |||
2. | Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; | ||||
3. | Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; | ||||
4. | Making reservation or exception; | ||||
prep. | 1. | With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. | |||
n. | 1. | Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; | |||
2. | Exception; reservation.
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Noun | 1. | saving - an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" Synonyms: economy |
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3. | saving - the activity of protecting something from loss or danger Synonyms: preservation | |
Adj. | 1. | saving - bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" Synonyms: redeeming, redemptive |
2. | saving - characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow |