verb
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To prevent harm or difficulty.
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To put aside, to avoid.
noun
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A reduction in cost or expenditure.
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The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
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(usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
example
I invested all my savings in gold.
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The action of the verb to save.
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Exception; reservation
adjective
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That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
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Preserving; rescuing.
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Thrifty; frugal.
example
a saving cook
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Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
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The ship has made a saving voyage.
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Making reservation or exception.
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a saving clause
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(in compound adjectives) relating to making a saving: e.g. labour-saving, energy-saving light bulbs.
preposition
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With the exception of; except; save.
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Without disrespect to.
Examples of saving in a Sentence
I've been saving my money to buy a house.
He lost a round with her in the immortal world, when she manipulated him into saving her life and those of her sisters-in-law.
It wasn't like she was saving her money for anything.
She does need saving, Xander.
The one saving grace was that Elisabeth lay sound asleep, unable to witness his distress.
I was saving it for you.
A small sacrifice for saving your people.
What could possibly be more important to us than saving lives?
Making love to her, wanting her dead, saving her life, walking away.
A small snack, as repayment for saving your life last night.
You are saving five lives a day, simply by being my mate.
The question is that of saving Russia.
In the prolonged discussions regarding the Bill of Indemnity he was instrumental in saving the life of Haselrig, and opposed the clause compelling all officers who had served under Cromwell to refund their salaries, he himself never having had any.
Yes, my dear Monsieur Pierre, I owe you a fine votive candle for saving me from that maniac....
She did not speak any more to Natasha of hopes of saving his life.
The coast, constantly encroaching on the sea by reason of the alluvium washed down by the rivers of the Pyrenees and Cvennes, is without important harbours saving that of Cette, itself continually invaded by the sand.
And didn't she owe him a kiss for saving her, especially since she planned on stealing from him?
The very basis of Orthodoxy is that the Church is by Christ's ordinance unalterable, that its traditional forms, every one of which is a vehicle of saving grace, were established in the beginning by Christ and his apostles, and that consequently nothing may be added or altered.
Coal-saving can be shown to the extent of about 1% in some cases, but the saving depends upon the kind of service on which the engine is employed.
But this puts an infinitely worse face on the matter, and suggests, beside, that probably not even the other three succeed in saving their souls, but are perchance bankrupt in a worse sense than they who fail honestly.
And Rostov got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of what happiness it would be to die--not in saving the Emperor's life (he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his eyes.
Lead that man away! said he quickly and energetically, and taking the arm of Pierre whom he had promoted to be a Frenchman for saving his life, he went with him into the room.
He was so very polite, amiable, good-natured, and genuinely grateful to Pierre for saving his life that Pierre had not the heart to refuse, and sat down with him in the parlor--the first room they entered.
And only that feeling placed him on that highest human pedestal from which he, the commander-in-chief, devoted all his powers not to slaying and destroying men but to saving and showing pity on them.
Shouldn't you be saving those people so I don't blow them up?
She was saving lives, yes, but she wished there was a different way to do it.
I came out to thank you for bringing me here and saving me more than once from those things.
He wanted to kill me, and I blackmailed him into saving me instead.
You're welcome for saving your ass again.
Finally, the latest episode in Poland still fresh in the captain's memory, and which he narrated with rapid gestures and glowing face, was of how he had saved the life of a Pole (in general, the saving of life continually occurred in the captain's stories) and the Pole had entrusted to him his enchanting wife (parisienne de coeur) while himself entering the French service.
He thought of nothing else but saving her.
Maybe he blames her for both not watching the boys and then for saving her child and not his.
That's what got me started saving money.
The people credited the PMF with saving them from the elite's Civil War while the elites tried hard to stamp out the PMF's existence.
After that day he underwent great personal risk in saving fugitives; in particular, he saved the life of the count of Champcenetz, the governor of the Tuileries, who was his personal enemy, at the request of Mrs Elliott.
He was instrumental in saving New York and Vermont from invasion by his brilliant victory of lake Champlain gained, on the nth of September 1814, with a flotilla of 14 vessels carrying 86 guns, over Captain George Downie's 16 vessels and 92 guns.
At Austerlitz he remained last at the Augezd dam, rallying the regiments, saving what was possible when all were flying and perishing and not a single general was left in the rear guard.
If nothing else, she wanted to correct him about the Peak, to tell him she'd thought she'd been saving everyone on the mountain by taking the very keypads that might kill them in the hands of a traitor.
He'd blocked the strike that probably would've killed the woman who betrayed him, saving her instead.
In December 1898 communication was established by the Marconi method between the East Goodwin lightship and the South Foreland lighthouse; and this installation was maintained for upwards of a year, during which it was the means of saving both life and property.
The implication was that Castor and Pollux, knowing of the imminent collapse of the roof, had come calling with the purpose of saving Simonides's life as their payment for the poem.
The offer of a truce gave the only, and a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army.
Soon you'll be zipping from Point A to Point B in style -- and saving tons on gas in the process.
Would you believe he covers up with the excuse that he's saving himself for one special girl?
Think of all the children he could be saving.
I couldn't block out of my mind, my wife's statement a few days ago; think of all the children who he could be saving.
I'm doing it because of what you said; think of all the children he could be saving.
Unfortunately, in spite of her life saving efforts, the young man had already perished.
His attention left her for a moment while he reached over and closed the program down without saving.
She'd like to think she was saving poor souls every day she spent with him donating her blood, but she couldn't help thinking she really wouldn't care what he did to get blood if she was gone.