save /sāv/

1. To rescue
2. To bring or keep out of danger
3. To bring safely out of evil
4. To protect
5. To preserve
6. To prevent or avoid the loss, expenditure, or performance of, or the gain of by an opponent
7. To reserve
8. To spare
9. To deliver from the power of sin and from its consequences
10. To be economical in the use of
11. To hoard
12. To (enter an instruction to) store (data) on a tape or disk (computing)
13. To prevent (a goal) from being scored
14. To obviate, to prevent
15. To be in time for (eg the post; archaic)

1. To be economical
2. To reserve esp money for future use
3. To act as a saviour

Except

1. Were it not that
2. Unless

1. An act of saving, esp in games
2. An instance by a relief pitcher of successfully preserving a narrow lead at the end of a game (baseball)
3. A computer instruction to save material onto a tape or disk

savˈable adjective

savˈableness noun

saved adjective

saˈver noun

saˈving adjective

1. Protecting
2. Preserving
3. Redeeming
4. Securing salvation (theology)
5. Frugal
6. Making a reservation (esp law)
7. Directed towards the avoidance of loss rather than the making of profit

Excepting

1. The action of the verb
2. Something which is saved
3. (in pl) money laid aside for future use
4. A reservation (law)

saˈvingly adverb

saˈvingness noun

saveˈ-all noun

1. A contrivance intended to save anything from being wasted or damaged
2. A pinafore or overall (dialect)
3. A miser

adjective

Stingy

save as you earn noun

A government-operated savings scheme in which regular deductions are made from one's earnings (abbrev SAYE)

saveˈgard transitive verb (Spenser)

To guard, protect

saving clause noun

A legal clause, or a statement, in which a reservation or condition is made

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