saving

adj. making a restriction, redeeming; rescuing; preserving; economizing; economical

n. act of rescuing; act of safeguarding; redemption, act of delivering from sin; conservation; preservation, act of maintaining

prep. except, besides, but; with all due respect to

v. rescue, salvage; safeguard from damage or injury; redeem, deliver from sin; conserve, avoid unnecessary use or expenditure; preserve, keep, maintain

In common usage, saving generally means putting money aside, for example, by putting money in the bank or investing in a pension plan.In a broader sense, saving is typically used to refer to economizing, cutting costs, or to rescuing someone or something.In terms of personal finance, saving refers to preserving money for future use - typically by putting it on deposit - this is distinct from investment where there is an element of risk.
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Noun
1. an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents"
(synonym) economy
(hypernym) action
(hyponym) retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing
2. recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
(synonym) rescue, deliverance, delivery
(hypernym) recovery, retrieval
(hyponym) lifesaving
3. the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
(synonym) preservation
(hypernym) protection
(hyponym) environmentalism
Adjective
1. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"
(synonym) redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)
(similar) good
2. characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow
(similar) thrifty

Noun
1. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"
(hypernym) prevention, bar
(classification) sport, athletics
Verb
1. save from ruin, destruction, or harm
(synonym) salvage, salve, relieve
(hypernym) rescue, deliver
(derivation) rescuer, recoverer, saver
2. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
(synonym) preserve
(hypernym) keep, hold on
(hyponym) record, enter, put down
(derivation) saver
3. bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
(synonym) carry through, pull through, bring through
(hyponym) rescue, deliver
(derivation) savior, saviour, rescuer, deliverer
4. spend less; buy at a reduced price
(hyponym) scrimp, stint, skimp
(entail) buy, purchase
(derivation) saver
5. feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his salary"
(synonym) lay aside, save up
(hyponym) hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away
(derivation) savings, nest egg
6. make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
(synonym) make unnecessary
(hypernym) prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
7. save from sins
(synonym) deliver, redeem
(classification) religion, faith
8. refrain from harming
(synonym) spare
(hypernym) refrain, forbear
(hyponym) favor, favour
9. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
(synonym) economize, economise
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) tighten one's belt
(derivation) saver
10. retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
(synonym) keep open, hold open, keep
(hypernym) reserve, hold, book
(verb-group) keep, hold on

(participle)
With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
  

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Save
  

(n.)
Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
  

(n.)
Exception; reservation.
  

(a.)
Preserving; rescuing.
  

(a.)
Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
  

(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.
  

(a.)
Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
  

<editor, programming, storage> To copy data to a more permanent form of storage. The term is commonly used for when some kind of document editing application program writes the current document from RAM to a file on hard disk at the request of the user. The implication is that the user might later load the file back into the editor again to view it, print it, or continue editing it. Saving a document makes it safe from the effects of power failure.
The "document" might actually be anything, e.g. a word processor document, the current state of a game, a piece of music, a web site, or a memory image of some program being executed (though the term "dump" would probably be more common here).
Data can be saved to any kind of (writable) storage: hard disk, floppy disk, CD-R; either locally or via a network.
A program might save its data without any explicit user request, e.g. periodically as a precaution ("auto save"), or if it forms part of a pipeline of processes which pass data via intermediate files. In the latter case the term suggests all data is written in a single operation whereas "output" might be a continuous flow, in true pipeline fashion.
When copying several files from one storage medium to another, the terms "back-up", "dump", or "archive" would be used rather than "save". The term "store" is similar to "save" but typically applies to copying a single item of data, e.g. a number, from a processor's register to RAM.
(2002-06-07)