Avoiding and Saving

noun

• An act of economizing; reduction in cost.
  • usage: "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents"
  • synonyms: economy
• Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.
  • usage: "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
  • synonyms: rescue, deliverance, delivery
• The activity of protecting something from loss or danger.
  • synonyms: preservation

verb

• Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.
  • synonyms: salvage, salve, relieve, save
• To keep up and reserve for personal or special use.
  • usage: "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
  • synonyms: save, preserve
• Bring into safety.
  • usage: "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
  • synonyms: save, carry through, pull through, bring through
• Spend less; buy at a reduced price.
  • synonyms: save
• Accumulate money for future use.
  • usage: "He saves half his salary"
  • synonyms: save, lay aside, save up
• 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: save, make unnecessary
• Save from sins.
  • synonyms: deliver, redeem, save
• Refrain from harming.
  • synonyms: spare, save
• Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.
  • usage: "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
  • synonyms: save, economize, economise
• Retain rights to.
  • usage: "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
  • synonyms: keep open, hold open, keep, save
• Record data on a computer.
  • usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
  • synonyms: write, save

adjective

• Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin.
  • usage: "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"
  • synonyms: redemptive, redeeming
• Characterized by thriftiness. "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution- Ellen Glasgow

• (participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Save.
• (a.) Preserving; rescuing.
• (a.) Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
• (n.) Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
• (n.) Exception; reservation.
• (a.) 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 voyage.
• (a.) Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.