saving

A reduction in cost or expenditure.countableuncountable

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

Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.countableplural-normally

• I invested all my savings in gold.
• The collapse of Enron wiped out the life savings of many people, leaving them poor in their retirement.

The action of the verb to save.uncountable

Exception; reservation.countableobsoleteuncountable

• saving and transitional provisions

present participle and gerund of saveform-ofgerundparticiple

That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.

Preserving; rescuing.

• He is the saving strength of his anointed.

Thrifty; frugal.

• Hutchins has been a saving man all his life, and he has received good wages. Among his class he is regarded as wealthy. I daresay that he has five hundred pounds in the bank.
• Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.

Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.

• a saving bargain
• The ship has made a saving voyage.

Making reservation or exception.

• a saving clause

Relating to making a saving.in-compounds

• labour-saving
• energy-saving light bulbs

Synonym of save (“except for”)

• And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Without disrespect to.

• I should be ruled by the fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself.
• Saving your presence.