Definitions for saving
ˈseɪ vɪŋsav·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. economy, saving(noun)

   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, saving(noun)

   recovery or preservation from loss or danger

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

3. preservation, saving(adj)

   the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

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

   bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

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

5. saving(adj)

   characterized by thriftiness

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. saving(Noun)

   A reduction in cost or expenditure.

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

2. saving(Noun)

   Something (usually money) that is saved.

   I invested all my savings in gold.

3. saving(Noun)

   The action of the verb to save.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Saving

   of Save

2. Saving(adj)

   preserving; rescuing

3. Saving(adj)

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

4. Saving(adj)

   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. Saving(adj)

   making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause

6. Saving

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

7. Saving(noun)

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

8. Saving(noun)

   exception; reservation

Freebase(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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.

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

How to pronounce saving?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Jesse Mecham:

   The biggest paradigm shift in saving and spending smarter is to really get into the why behind your vacation, think back to a vacation that you absolutely loved. What was it about that vacation that made it great? Was it the specific location, the company, the relaxed pace? Was it time spent with your family unplugged from work?

2. Janet Dafoe:

   He's saving lives, just by lying there.

3. Seema Gupta:

   This seems to be a face-saving strategy to say something to the court.

4. Frank Connor:

   It's amazing, in the last few days, you had Raul Castro making demands of the U.S. for normalization of relations, including closing Guantanamo Bay, when we're the most powerful nation on earth. We shouldn't be taking demands from Cuba to basically infuse life-saving capital into their country; it should be going quite the opposite.

5. Chantel Bonneau:

   If your child lives at home and the point is to increase their financial position, they have to sit down and review their saving strategy, what their debt is and what they’re spending on a quarterly basis.

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