Crossword Dictionary

What's The Definition Of Saving?

\Sav"ing\, a. 1. Preserving; rescuing. He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps. xxviii. 8. 2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. 3. 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. 4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.
\Sav"ing\ (s[=a]v"[i^]ng), prep. or conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. ``Saving your reverence.'' --Shak. ``Saving your presence.'' --Burns. None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. --Neh. iv. 23. And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. --Rev. ii. 17.
\Sav"ing\, n. 1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy. 2. Exception; reservation. Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. --L'Estrange. {Savings bank}, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.