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English
Etymology
From save + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
saving (countable and uncountable, plural savings)
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
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.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (law, obsolete) Exception; reservation.
saving and transitional provisions
Derived terms
Translations
something that is saved
- Arabic: مُدَخَرَات f pl (mudaḵarāt)
- Belarusian: зберажэ́нні n pl (zbjeražénni)
- Bulgarian: спестя́ване (bg) n (spestjávane)
- Catalan: estalvi (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 儲蓄/储蓄 (zh) (chǔxù)
- Czech: úspory f pl
- Danish: sparepenge pl
- Dutch: spaargeld (nl)
- Finnish: säästöt (fi) pl
- French: économie (fr), épargne (fr) f
- German: Ersparnisse (de) f pl
- Greek: αποταμιεύσεις (el) f pl (apotamiéfseis)
- Hungarian: megtakarítás (hu)
- Indonesian: tabungan (id)
- Japanese: 貯蓄 (ja) (ちょちく, chochiku), 貯金 (ja) (ちょきん, chokin) (bank savings)
- Korean: 저축(貯蓄) (ko) (jeochuk), 저금(貯金) (ko) (jeogeum)
- Malay: tabung (ms)
- Maori: pūtea penapena
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хуримтлал (mn) (xurimtlal), хадгаламж (mn) (xadgalamž)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠮᠲᠤᠯᠠᠯ (quramtulal), ᠬᠠᠳᠠᠭᠠᠯᠠᠮᠵᠢ (qadaɣalamǰi)
- Occitan: estalvi (oc) m, estalvi (oc) m
- Portuguese: poupança (pt) f, economias (pt) f pl
- Russian: сбереже́ния (ru) n pl (sberežénija), накопле́ния (ru) n pl (nakoplénija)
- Spanish: ahorros (es) m pl, economías (es) f
- Swahili: akiba (sw)
- Ukrainian: заоща́дження n pl (zaoščádžennja), збере́ження n pl (zberéžennja)
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Verb
saving
- present participle and gerund of save
Adjective
saving (comparative more saving, superlative most saving)
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Preserving; rescuing.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- a saving cook
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 14: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
- (in compound adjectives) Relating to making a saving.
labour-saving
energy-saving light bulbs
Derived terms
Translations
in compound adjectives: relating to making a saving
Preposition
saving
- With the exception of; except; save.
- Without disrespect to.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I should be ruled by the fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself.
a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes:Saving your presence.
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
saving
- Alternative form of savynge