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1. An act of economizing; reduction in cost
   "there was a saving of 50 cents";
   - economy
    
2. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger
   "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives";
   - rescue, deliverance, delivery
    
3. The activity of protecting something from loss or danger
   - preservation

1. Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
   "saving faith"; "saving love";
   - redemptive, redeeming
    
2. Characterized by thriftiness
   "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"

1. Prevent being ruined, destroyed, lost, or harmed
   - salvage, salve, relieve
    
2. To keep up and reserve for personal or special use
   "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer";
   - preserve
    
3. Bring into safety
   "We saved most of the victims of the bomb attack";
   - carry through, pull through, bring through
    
4. Spend less; buy at a reduced price
    
5. Accumulate money for future use
   "He saves half his salary";
   - lay aside, save up
    
6. Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
   "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"; "This will save money"
    
7. (religion) Prevent committing sins
   - deliver, redeem
    
8. Refrain from harming
   - spare
    
9. Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
   "This move will save money";
   - economize, economise [Brit]
    
10. Retain rights to
    "save the possibility of a merger";
    - keep open, hold open, keep
     
11. (computing) record data on a computer
    - write

Derived forms: savings

See also: good, thrifty

Type of: action, book, deliver, drop, expend, forbear, forbid, foreclose, forestall, hold, hold on, keep, preclude, prevent, protection, record, recovery, refrain, rescue, reserve, retrieval, spend, tape

Encyclopedia: Saving