Save(a.)
- To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
Save(a.)
- Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
Save(a.)
- To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
Save(a.)
- To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
Save(a.)
- To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
Save(a.)
- To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
Save(v. i.)
- To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
Saving(a.)
- Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
Saving(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.
Saving(a.)
- Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
Saving(participle)
- With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
Saving(n.)
- Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.