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UK
/sˈeɪvɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈseɪvɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈseɪvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
saving faith
redemptive (or redeeming) love -
characterized by thriftiness
wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution
NOUN
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
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an act of economizing; reduction in cost
there was a saving of 50 cents
it was a small economy to walk to work every day -
recovery or preservation from loss or danger
a surgeon's job is the saving of lives
work is the deliverance of mankind
How To Use saving In A Sentence
- A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.
- This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
- I'd like to withdraw 1000 dollars from my savings account and put it in my check account.
- Apart from intense competition in the retail savings market, banks and building societies also compete strongly in the market for house finance.
- There are still substantial savings out of the machinery of government. The Sun
- What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth saving, sir. Moby Dick
- Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
- Of course, daylight savings time will never go away, because modern environmentalism has become more a matter of making empty feel-good gestures than performing rational acts that actually improve something. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It Seems I Was Right About Daylight Savings Time
- I'm saving all my leave to have a long holiday later in the year.
- To that end, they developed numerous labor-saving devices.