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Returning and Saving

returning

verb

  • Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.
    • usage: "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
  • Give back.
    • usage: "render money"
  • Go back to a previous state.
    • usage: "We reverted to the old rules"
  • Go back to something earlier.
    • usage: "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
  • Bring back to the point of departure.
  • Return in kind.
    • usage: "return a compliment"; "return her love"
  • Make a return.
    • usage: "return a kickback"
  • Answer back.
  • Be restored.
    • usage: "Her old vigor returned"
  • Pay back.
    • usage: "Please refund me my money"
  • Pass down.
    • usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
  • Elect again.
  • Be inherited by.
    • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • Return to a previous position; in mathematics.
    • usage: "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
  • Give or supply.
    • usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
  • Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority.
    • usage: "submit a bill to a legislative body"

adjective

  • Tending to return to an earlier state.
  • Tending to be turned back.
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(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Return.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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"
  • Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.
    • usage: "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
  • The activity of protecting something from loss or danger.

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"
  • Bring into safety.
    • usage: "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
  • 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"
  • Save from sins.
  • Refrain from harming.
  • 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"

adjective

  • Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin.
    • usage: "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"
  • Characterized by thriftiness. "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution- Ellen Glasgow
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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