saving

• POS: Adjective, Conjunction, Noun, Preposition
• HYPHEN: sav=ing
• COUNT in NET: 6 in 6 verses (in OT : 6 in 6 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

saving, a. 

•  Preserving; rescuing.  [1913 Webster]

  "He is the saving strength of his anointed."  [1913 Webster]
•  Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.  [1913 Webster]

  " Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc."  [1913 Webster]

saving, prep.  

 With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.  [1913 Webster]
"None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing."  [1913 Webster]
"And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."  [1913 Webster]

saving, n. 

•  Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.  [1913 Webster]
•  Exception; reservation.  [1913 Webster]

  "Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty."  [1913 Webster]

Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

saving, adj., n., & prep.
--adj. (often in comb.) making economical use of (labour-saving).
--n.
1 anything that is saved.
2 an economy (a saving in expenses).
3 (usu. in pl.) money saved.
--prep.
1 with the exception of; except (all saving that one).
2 without offence to (saving your presence).

Idiom

saving clause Law a clause containing a stipulation of exemption etc. saving grace
1 the redeeming grace of God.
2 a redeeming quality or characteristic. savings account a deposit account. savings bank a bank receiving small deposits at interest and returning the profits to the depositors. savings certificate Brit. an interest-bearing document issued by the Government for the benefit of savers.

Etymology

ME f. SAVE(1): prep. prob. f. SAVE(2) after touching

THESAURUS

saving

Scotch, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, cache, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, compensating, compensatory, conservancy, conservation, conservational, conservationism, conservationist, conservative, conservatory, conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curtailment, cutback, deliverance, delivery, economic, economical, economization, economizing, economy, environmental conservation, ex, except, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, excusing the liberty, extenuating, extenuatory, extrication, forehanded, forest conservation, forest management, freeing, frugal, frugality, hoard, in deference to, keeping, labor-saving, leaving out, let alone, liberation, lifesaving, low growth rate, maintenance, money-saving, nest egg, omitting, outside of, parsimonious, penny-wise, precluding, preserval, preservation, preservative, preservatory, preserving, protection, protective, providence, provident, prudence, prudent, prudential, qualifying, ransom, recovery, redeeming, redemption, redemptional, redemptive, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, release, rescue, reserve, resources, retrenchment, retrieval, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, save, save and except, saving your reverence, savings, scraping, scrimping, skimping, slowdown, soil conservation, spare, sparing, sparingness, stream conservation, support, than, thrift, thrifty, time-saving, unless, unwasteful, upkeep, wary, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation, with all respect, with due respect, without

ROGET THESAURUS

saving

Economy

N economy, frugality, thrift, thriftiness, care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment, savings, prevention of waste, save-all, cheese parings and candle ends, parsimony, cost-cutting, cost control, economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing, parsimonious, underpaid, sparingly, ne quid nimis, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit, magnum est vectigal parsimonia.