Avoiding and Save
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Avoid.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring. (
- usage: "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"
verb
- Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.
- To keep up and reserve for personal or special use.
- usage: "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
- synonyms: preserve
- Bring into safety.
- usage: "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
- synonyms: carry through, pull through, bring through
- Spend less; buy at a reduced price.
- Accumulate money for future use.
- usage: "He saves half his salary"
- Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort.
- usage: "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
- synonyms: make unnecessary
- Save from sins.
- Refrain from harming.
- synonyms: spare
- Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.
- usage: "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
- Retain rights to.
- usage: "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
- Record data on a computer.
- usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
- synonyms: write
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) The herb sage or salvia.
- (a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
- (conj.) Except; unless.
- (a.) To hinder from doing, suffering or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
- (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
- (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
- (v.i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
- (a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
- (a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
- (a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
To put aside a portion of income, deferring its consumption until a future date.