Saving — synonyms, definition

1. saving (o)

apart from aside from except excepting excluding without

2. saving (a)

avaricious careful chary close close-fisted conditional economical freeing frugal greedy illiberal mean mercenary niggard niggardly parsimonious penurious poor protecting protective • • •

3. saving (Noun)

austerity conservation deduction deliverance delivery economy forehandedness frugality gain husbandry maintenance preservation proceeds profit rebate rescue thrift

saving (Noun) — An act of economizing; reduction in cost. ex. "there was a saving of 50 cents"

saving (Noun) — Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. ex. "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

saving (Noun) — The activity of protecting something from loss or danger.

action protection recovery retrieval conservation curtailment downsizing economy of scale environmentalism immobilisation immobilization lifesaving reclamation redemption reformation reservation retrenchment salvage salvation search and rescue mission self-preservation

4. saving (Adjective)

redemptive

saving (Adjective) — Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin. ex. "saving faith" ex. "saving love"

saving (Adjective) — Characterized by thriftiness. ex. "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"

5. saving (Verb)

bringing through carrying through delivering economising economizing holding open keeping keeping open laying aside making unnecessary preserving pulling through relieving salvaging salving saving up writing

saving (Verb) — Prevent being ruined, destroyed, lost, or harmed.

saving (Verb) — To keep up and reserve for personal or special use. ex. "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

saving (Verb) — Bring into safety. ex. "We saved most of the victims of the bomb attack"

saving (Verb) — Spend less; buy at a reduced price.

saving (Verb) — Accumulate money for future use. ex. "He saves half his salary"

saving (Verb) — Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort. ex. "This will save money" ex. "I'll save you the trouble" ex. "This will save you a lot of time"

saving (Verb) — (religion) Prevent committing sins.

saving (Verb) — Refrain from harming.

saving (Verb) — Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of. ex. "This move will save money"

saving (Verb) — Retain rights to. ex. "save the possibility of a merger"

saving (Verb) — (computing) record data on a computer.

booking delivering dropping expending forbearing forbidding foreclosing forestalling holding holding on keeping precluding preventing recording refraining rescuing reserving spending taping caching conserving delivering economising economizing entering favoring favouring hiving up hoarding husbanding laying away overwriting putting down recording rescuing scrimping skimping socking away squirreling away • • •