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US
/ˈseɪv/
]
[ UK /sˈeɪv/ ]
[ UK /sˈeɪv/ ]
VERB
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make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
I'll save you the trouble
This will save you a lot of time
This will save money - save from ruin, destruction, or harm
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to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
She saved the old family photographs in a drawer - refrain from harming
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bring into safety
We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack -
record data on a computer
boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk - spend less; buy at a reduced price
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spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
This move will save money
The less fortunate will have to economize now - save from sins
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retain rights to
keep my job for me while I give birth
keep my seat, please
keep open the possibility of a merger -
accumulate money for future use
He saves half his salary
NOUN
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(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
the relief pitcher got credit for a save
the goalie made a brilliant save
How To Use save In A Sentence
- A third goal at that stage would have saved Rangers a lot of bother.
- We've been saved a lot of expense by doing the work ourselves.
- Buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat from the sun to save on heating costs.
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- Yet while pilotless drones are dehumanised and impersonalised, mobile phone ring tones and screensavers are instances of the humanity and personality of the people behind technology.
- Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
- ‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
- He became the icon that God had to smite to be able to save us, and suddenly the Lamb of God was smitten! FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
- I claim it is helping save the planet, being heated by the odd feline and my doona. The post in which I whine about the weather
- The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Old Calabria
