saving

CEFRB1

/ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/

noun · adjective

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Examples

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
The action of the verb to save.
A reduction in cost or expenditure.

In context

So we are saving up in order to buy them.
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.

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This new yard will replace a group of out-of-date yards, and there will be an estimated net saving of £150,000 a year.
1954 August, “Marshalling Yard Reorganisation, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 570
“Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said.
2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN
He is the saving strength of his anointed.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 28:8
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.
1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
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.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 14

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