What does saving mean?

Definitions for saving
ˈseɪ vɪŋsav·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word saving.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. economy, savingnoun

    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"

  2. rescue, deliverance, delivery, savingnoun

    recovery or preservation from loss or danger

    "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

  3. preservation, savingadjective

    the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

  4. redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)adjective

    bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

    "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"

  5. savingadjective

    characterized by thriftiness

    "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow

Wiktionary

  1. savingnoun

    A reduction in cost or expenditure.

    The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.

  2. savingnoun

    Something (usually money) that is saved.

    I invested all my savings in gold.

  3. savingnoun

    The action of the verb to save.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Savingadjective

    Etymology: from save.

    She loved money; for she was saving, and applied her fortune to pay John’s clamorous debts. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.

    Be saving of your candle. Jonathan Swift.

    Silvio, finding his application unsuccessful, was resolved to make a saving bargain; and since he could not get the widow’s estate, to recover what he had laid out of his own. Addison.

  2. Savingadverb

    With exception in favour of.

    Etymology: This is nothing more than a participle of the verb save adverbially used.

    All this world’s glory seemeth vain,
    And all their shows but shadows, saving she. Edmund Spenser.

    Such laws cannot be abrogated, saving only by whom they were made; because the intent of them being known unto none but the author, he alone can judge how long it is requisite they should endure. Richard Hooker.

    Saving the reverence due to so great a man, I doubt not but they did all creep out of their holes. John Ray, on the Creation.

  3. Savingnoun

    Etymology: from save.

    It is a great saving in all such lights, if they can be made as fair and right as others, and yet last longer. Francis Bacon.

    By reducing interest to four per cent. there was a considerable saving to the nation; but this year they give six. Addison.

    Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty; for integrity must be supported against all violence. Roger L'Estrange.

ChatGPT

  1. saving

    Saving refers to the act of setting aside a portion of income for future use. It involves preserving money for unforeseen circumstances, future purchases, or investments. This can be done through putting money in savings accounts, retirement funds, or other forms of financial instruments that increase in value over time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Saving

    of Save

  2. Savingadjective

    preserving; rescuing

  3. Savingadjective

    avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook

  4. Savingadjective

    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

  5. Savingadjective

    making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause

  6. Saving

    with the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to

  7. Savingnoun

    something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy

  8. Savingnoun

    exception; reservation

Wikidata

  1. Saving

    Saving is income not spent, or deferred consumption. Methods of saving include putting money aside in a bank or pension plan. Saving also includes reducing expenditures, such as recurring costs. In terms of personal finance, saving specifies low-risk preservation of money, as in a deposit account, versus investment, wherein risk is higher. There is some disagreement about what counts as saving. For example, the part of a person's income that is spent on mortgage loan repayments is not spent on present consumption and is therefore saving by the above definition, even though people do not always think of repaying a loan as saving. However, in the U.S. measurement of the numbers behind its gross national product, personal interest payments are not treated as "saving" unless the institutions and people who receive them save them. "Saving" differs from "savings." The former refers to an increase in one's assets, an increase in net worth, whereas the latter refers to one part of one's assets, usually deposits in savings accounts, or to all of one's assets. Saving refers to an activity occurring over time, a flow variable, whereas savings refers to something that exists at any one time, a stock variable.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SAVING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Saving is ranked #139228 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Saving surname appeared 120 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Saving.

    94.1% or 113 total occurrences were White.
    4.1% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'saving' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4092

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'saving' in Nouns Frequency: #1098

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of saving in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of saving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of saving in a Sentence

  1. Scott Wiener:

    For eight years, a broad coalition has worked to pass this life-saving legislation, each year this legislation is delayed, more people die of drug overdoses — two per day in San Francisco alone. While this veto is a major setback for the effort to save lives and connect people to treatment, we must not — and will not — let it end this movement.

  2. Ian Ruggier:

    The idea is that with more people getting interested you can cover bigger areas of the sea, it allows people to see that they are contributing towards saving lives. (The success) will depend on the popularity of the app.

  3. Phyllis George:

    The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

  4. New York:

    No one in New York is being turned away from life-saving treatment because of their race or any demographic identifier.

  5. Mondaire Jones:

    I think it's demonstrably clear that( President Joe Biden) hasn't done a lot. This is someone who has all the resources available to him as the most powerful person in the world to rally members of President Joe Biden own party to at least make an exception to the filibuster for purposes of saving our democracy, and instead, the media and the work of a number of senators has been focused on a bipartisan infrastructure package.

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