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sav·ing

(sā′vĭng)

1. Rescue from harm, danger, or loss.

2. Avoidance of excess expenditure; economy.

3. A reduction in expenditure or cost.

4. Something saved.

a. savings Money saved: a bank account for savings.

b. savings(used with a sing. verb) Usage Problem An amount of money saved: a rebate that yielded a savings of $50.

6. Law An exception or reservation.

prep.

With the exception of.

conj.

Except; save.

Usage Note: Traditionalists state that one should use the form a saving when referring to an amount of money that is saved. Indeed, that is the form English speakers outside of the United States normally use. In the United States the plural form a savings is widely used with a singular verb (as in A savings of $50 is most welcome). The widespread use of this construction has steadily eroded resistance to it. In our 2005 survey, only 37 percent of the Usage Panel found this sentence unacceptable. This was a considerable decrease from earlier surveys. In 1988, 57 percent rejected a savings, and in 1967, 89 percent rejected it.

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Noun

savings - a fund of money put by as a reserve

nest egg

fund, monetary fund - a reserve of money set aside for some purpose

Translations

تَوفيرات، مُدَّخّراتمُدَّخَرات

úspory

opsparing

Ersparnisse Ersparnis

οικονομίες

ahorros

säästöt

économies épargne

ušteđevina

megtakarított pénz

sparifé

risparmi libretto di risparmio

貯金

저축

сбережения накопление

úspory

prihranki

sparmedel

เงินออม

birikim tasarruf

tiền tiết kiệm

储蓄存款

savings

in cpds → Spar-;

savings account

n → Sparkonto nt

savings bank

n → Sparkasse f

savings bond

n (US Fin) → (staatlicher) Sparbrief

savings book

n → Sparbuch nt

savings certificate

n (Brit Fin) → Sparbrief m

savings deposit

n → Spareinlage f

savings stamp

n (Brit) → Sparmarke f

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save¹

(seiv) verb

1. to rescue or bring out of danger. He saved his friend from drowning; The house was burnt but he saved the pictures.

2. to keep (money etc) for future use. He's saving (his money) to buy a bicycle; They're saving for a house.

3. to prevent the using or wasting of (money, time, energy etc). Frozen foods save a lot of trouble; I'll telephone and that will save me writing a letter.

4. in football etc, to prevent the opposing team from scoring a goal. The goalkeeper saved six goals.

5. to free from the power of sin and evil.

6. to keep data in the computer.

noun

(in football etc) an act of preventing the opposing team from scoring a goal.

ˈsaver noun

a person or thing that saves, avoids waste etc. The telephone is a great time-saver.

ˈsaving noun

a way of saving money etc or the amount saved in this way. It's a great saving to be able to make one's own clothes.

ˈsavings noun plural

money saved up. He keeps his savings in the bank.

saviour , (American) savior (ˈseivjə) noun

1. (usually with capital) a person or god who saves people from sin, hell etc.

2. a person who rescues a person etc from danger etc. He was the saviour of his country.

saving grace

a good quality that makes up for a fault. His speeches are boring but they have the saving grace of being short.

savings account

an account in a bank or post office on which interest is paid.

savings bank

a bank that receives small savings and gives interest.

save up

to save. He's been saving up for a new bike.

savings

→ مُدَّخَرات úspory opsparing Ersparnisse οικονομίες ahorros säästöt économies ušteđevina risparmi 貯金 저축 spaargeld sparepenger oszczędności economias сбережения sparmedel เงินออม birikim tiền tiết kiệm 存款

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I placed my savings with Planchet, who pays me the interest of them."

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A TRULY Pious Person who conducted a savings bank and lent money to his sisters and his cousins and his aunts of both sexes, was approached by a Tatterdemalion, who applied for a loan of one hundred thousand dollars.

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All we could spare from the supply of our humble wardrobe and our little casual expenses, he directed us to put into the savings'-bank; saying, we knew not how soon we might be dependent on that alone for support: for he felt he had not long to be with us, and what would become of our mother and us when he was gone, God only knew!

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When I reached home I found that the salt-furnaces were not running, and that the coal-mine was not being operated on account of the miners being out on "strike." This was something which, it seemed, usually occurred whenever the men got two or three months ahead in their savings. During the strike, of course, they spent all that they had saved, and would often return to work in debt at the same wages, or would move to another mine at considerable expense.

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And now your father has no ready money to spare, and your mother will have to pay away her ninety-two pounds that she has saved, and she says your savings must go too.

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In the mean time, till all these alterations could be made from the savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns, and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to form themselves a home.

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For some months he had been engaged to a young servant-woman, waiting only for a little increase to their mutual savings in order to their marriage; and it was a great delight to him that Sarah did not object to William's occasional presence in their Sunday interviews.

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That they do not very often want the means, may be gathered from the fact, that in July, 1841, no fewer than nine hundred and seventy-eight of these girls were depositors in the Lowell Savings Bank: the amount of whose joint savings was estimated at one hundred thousand dollars, or twenty thousand English pounds.

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The six-day drivers all tell me the same, and I have laid by more money in the savings bank than ever I did before; and as for the wife and children, sir, why, heart alive!

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Her nearest relations had been induced to place their savings in her father's hands, and though, after his death, they ungrudgingly acquitted themselves of the Christian duty of returning good for evil by giving his daughter all the advice at their disposal, they could hardly be expected to supplement it by material aid.

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The servant, having been left without wages, first lived on his little savings, and then on his master's pigeons.

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Harder than ever had it been to secure odd jobs, and he had reached the end of his savings. Earlier in the evening he had had a telephone conference with the Ancient Mariner, who had reported only progress with an exceptionally strong nibble that very day from a retired quack doctor.

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