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Webster 1913 Edition
Saving
Sav′ing
,Adj.
1.
Preserving; rescuing.
He is the
saving
strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8.
2.
Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical;
as, a
. saving
cook3.
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful;
as, a
. saving
bargain; the ship has made a saving
voyage4.
Making reservation or exception;
as, a
. saving
clause☞ Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective;
as, labor-
saving
, life-saving
, etc.Sav′ing
(sāv′ĭng)
, p
; but properly a rep.
or conj.
participle
. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
“Saving your reverence.” Shak.
“Saving your presence.” Burns.
None of us put off our clothes,
saving
that every one put them off for washing. Neh. iv. 23.
And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth
saving
he that receiveth it. Rev. ii. 17.
Sav′ing
,Noun.
1.
Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up;
as, the
. savings
of years of economy2.
Exception; reservation.
Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a
saving
to honesty. L’Estrange.
Savings bank
, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.
Webster 1828 Edition
Saving
SA'VING
, ppr.1.
Preserving from evil or destruction; hindering from waste or loss; sparing; taking or using in time.2.
Excepting.3.
a. Frugal; not lavish; avoiding unnecessary expenses; economical; parsimonious. But it implies less rigorous economy than parsimonious; as a saving husbandman or housekeeper.4.
That saves in returns or receipts the principal or sum employed or expended; that incurs no loss, though not gainful; as a saving bargain. The ship has made a saving voyage.5.
That secures everlasting salvation; as saving grace.SA'VING
, n.1.
Something kept from being expended or lost.By reducing the interest of the debt, the nation makes a saving.
2.
Exception; reservation.Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
Definition 2024
saving
saving
English
Noun
saving (countable and uncountable, plural savings)
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- I invested all my savings in gold.
- The collapse of Enron wiped out the life savings of many people, leaving them poor in their retirement.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (obsolete) exception; reservation
- L'Estrange
- Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
- L'Estrange
Derived terms
Translations
reduction in cost
something that is saved
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action of saving
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Verb
saving
- present participle of save
Adjective
saving (comparative more saving, superlative most saving)
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive. [from 14th c.]
- Preserving; rescuing.
- Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
- He is the saving strength of his anointed.
- Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
- Thrifty; frugal. [from 15th c.]
- a saving cook
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 14:
- Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- a saving bargain
- The ship has made a saving voyage.
- Making reservation or exception.
- a saving clause
- (in compound adjectives) relating to making a saving: e.g. labour-saving, energy-saving light bulbs.
Preposition
saving
- With the exception of; except; save.
- Bible, Revelation ii. 17
- And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Bible, Revelation ii. 17
- Without disrespect to.
- William Shakespeare
- Saving your reverence.
- Burns
- Saving your presence.
- William Shakespeare