Meaning of Saving | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A reduction in cost or expenditure.
   countable, uncountable
2. Cost or minor consumption of what would be normal or would be foreseen.
3. Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
   countable, plural-normally
4. Quantity of that that saves .
5. The action of the verb to save.
   uncountable
6. Save.
7. Exception; reservation.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.”

“This new yard will replace a group of out-of-date yards, and there will be an estimated net saving of £150,000 a year.”

“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.”

““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.”

“saving and transitional provisions”

“Tis Good Advice not to Contend with Those that are too Strong for us, but still with a saving to Honesty and Justice”

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