SAVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saving mean? 

• SAVING (noun)
  The noun SAVING has 3 senses:

1. an act of economizing; reduction in cost

2. recovery or preservation from loss or danger

3. the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

  Familiarity information: SAVING used as a noun is uncommon.

• SAVING (adjective)
  The adjective SAVING has 2 senses:

1. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

2. characterized by thriftiness

  Familiarity information: SAVING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act of economizing; reduction in cost

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

economy; saving

Context example:

there was a saving of 50 cents

Hypernyms ("saving" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saving"):

curtailment; downsizing; retrenchment (the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable)

economy of scale (the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving

Context example:

a surgeon's job is the saving of lives

Hypernyms ("saving" is a kind of...):

recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saving"):

lifesaving (saving the lives of drowning persons)

redemption; salvation ((theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil)

reclamation; reformation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)

salvage (the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire)

salvage (the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction)

salvation (saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation)

search and rescue mission (a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The activity of protecting something from loss or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

preservation; saving

Hypernyms ("saving" is a kind of...):

protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saving"):

environmentalism (the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction)

conservation (the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources)

self-preservation (preservation of yourself from harm; a natural or instinctive tendency)

reservation (the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion)

immobilisation; immobilization (fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing)

• SAVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

Synonyms:

redeeming; redemptive; saving

Context example:

redemptive (or redeeming) love

Similar:

good (morally admirable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by thriftiness

Context example:

wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution

Similar:

thrifty (careful and diligent in the use of resources)

 Context examples 

Every year, millions of people in the United States receive life-saving blood transfusions.

(Blood Transfusion and Donation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Although heart transplant surgery is a life-saving measure, it has many risks.

(Heart Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Mrs. Norris seemed as much delighted with the saving it would be to Sir Thomas as with any part of it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When I told him every detail he gave it up and thought only of saving his own skin.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They travelled on without speech, saving their breath for the work of their bodies.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

While such a strategy would likely not replace life-saving, emergency epinephrine when anaphylaxis occurs, therapies targeting Tfh13 cells might prevent the onset of anaphylaxis when an allergic person is exposed to an allergen.

(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)

She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

'Tain't earning now, it's saving does it, you may lay to that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Oh! Lord, it would be the saving of thousands.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

If the money that is lost in taking French lives were spent in saving English ones, you would have more right to burn candles in your windows.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)