Dictionary Entry
saving
saving is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Save. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Save
- 2adjective
Preserving; rescuing.
- 3adjective
Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
- 4adjective
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.
- 5adjective
Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
- 6participle
With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
- 7noun
Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
- 8noun
Exception; reservation.
- 9noun
recovery or preservation from loss or danger
"work is the deliverance of mankind"
"a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
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- 10noun
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"
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- 11noun
the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
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- 12adjective
bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
"saving faith"
"redemptive (or redeeming) love"
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- 13adjective
characterized by thriftiness- Ellen Glasgow
"wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"
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