saving
tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
compensating; redeeming: a saving sense of humor.
thrifty; economical: a saving housekeeper.
making a reservation: a saving clause.
a reduction or lessening of expenditure or outlay: a saving of 10 percent.
something that is saved.
savings, sums of money saved by economy and laid away.
Law. a reservation or exception.
except: Nothing remains saving these ruins.
with all due respect to or for: saving your presence.
except; save.
Origin of saving
1Other words for saving
2 | restoring, redemptory, qualifying |
Other words from saving
- sav·ing·ly, adverb
- non·sav·ing, adjective
- un·sav·ing, adjective
- un·sav·ing·ly, adverb
Words Nearby saving
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How to use saving in a sentence
One of the big benefits that is touted for RSAs is time savings.
RSAs: Are they living up to the promise? It depends | Ginny Marvin | September 9, 2020 | Search Engine LandWe 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.
Why PayPal’s Dan Schulman gave workers pay increases, without the market requiring it | Alan Murray | September 9, 2020 | FortuneOf course, cost savings also make the numbers look good, sources say.
‘Too big to ignore’: Future estimates profits of nearly $110 million this year | Lucinda Southern | September 8, 2020 | DigidayCurrently, 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.
In these reviews, cost savings are still a crucial factor in those decisions, according to an exec who has managed some of these reviews.
Marketers ‘looking to feel confident’: the coronavirus causing irreversible changes to the advertiser-agency dynamic | Seb Joseph | August 20, 2020 | Digiday
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?
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball? | Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow, 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.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsSteam machinery would accomplish more than nine-tenths of all the work, besides saving the expense of all the powder.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickI 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.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickTom pitched forward heavily, saving himself and his animal from an ignominious accident just in the nick of time.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodSo I put on my life-saving waistcoat and blew it out; clapped my new gas-mask on my head and entered.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for saving
/ (ˈseɪvɪŋ) /
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
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
with the exception of
except
Derived forms of saving
- savingly, adverb
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