Definitions for saving
ˈseɪ vɪŋsav·ing

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

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

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

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

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Action
   • Recovery

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?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say saving in sign language?

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. Hul Sokheng:

   These are life-saving rats.

2. Troy Thibodeau:

   He had the intelligence and wherewithal to start saving them, and he handed them down, eventually to three grandsons.

3. Matt McNicholas:

   It ended up, I believe, saving the taxpayers money and probably putting more money in the plaintiff's pocket.

4. Shimon Lavie:

   Israel Police were saving people's lives while Israel Police were also dealing with this complicated incident.

5. Michael Laufer:

   When you are looking at life-saving medications, looking at things that have the biggest barriers in terms of price or legality or infrastructure, [these] are the ones that are most in the political limelight, global health is at the front of human rights and women’s reproductive health is at the forefront of global health, so there is a natural choice to look at abortion drugs.

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