saving
/ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/ noun B2- A reduction in cost or expenditure. · The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
- Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future. · 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.
- The action of the verb to save.
Plural savings
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‘But it has at least the saving grace of antiquity to excuse it.
“My good friend, as in all probability I own my present safety to that influence, it would ill become me to search too closely into its source; therefore, instead of condemning him for his intimacy with outlaws, you must give me leave to excuse any little irregularity there may be in such a connection; not altogether for preserving my life, for my own idea was that it never was in much danger, but certainly for saving me 4,000 piastres, which, being translated, means neither more nor less than 24,000 livres of our money—a sum at which, most assuredly, I should never have been estimated in France, proving most indisputably,” added Albert with a laugh, “that no prophet is honored in his own country.”
Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly for saving her companion from death.
Ali is my slave, and in saving your life he was but discharging his duty to me.”
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