(~s, saving, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ someone or something, you help them to avoid harm or to escape from a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
...a final attempt to ~ 40,000 jobs in Britain’s troubled aero industry...
A new machine no bigger than a 10p piece could help ~ babies from cot death...
The national health system ~d him from becoming a cripple.
VERB: V n, V n from n/-ing, V n from n/-ing
-saving
His boxing career was ended after two sight-saving operations.
COMB in ADJ
2.
If you ~, you gradually collect money by spending less than you get, usually in order to buy something that you want.
The majority of people intend to ~, but find that by the end of the month there is nothing left...
Tim and Barbara are now saving for a house in the suburbs...
They could not find any way to ~ money.
VERB: V, V for n, V n
•
Save up means the same as ~ .
Julie wanted to put some of her money aside for holidays or ~ up for something special...
People often put money aside in order to ~ up enough to make one major expenditure.
PHRASAL VERB: V P for n, V P n (not pron)
3.
If you ~ something such as time or money, you prevent the loss or waste of it.
It ~s time in the kitchen to have things you use a lot within reach...
I’ll try to ~ him the expense of a flight from Perth...
I got the fishmonger to skin the fish which helped ~ on the preparation time.
? waste
VERB: V n, V n n, V on n
-saving
...labor-saving devices.
COMB in ADJ
4.
If you ~ something, you keep it because it will be needed later.
Drain the beans thoroughly and ~ the stock for soup...
VERB: V n
5.
If someone or something ~s you from an unpleasant action or experience, they change the situation so that you do not have to do it or experience it.
The scanner will ~ risk and pain for patients...
She was hoping that something might ~ her from having to make a decision...
He arranges to collect the payment from the customer, thus saving the client the paperwork.
VERB: V n, V n from n/-ing, V n n
6.
If you ~ data in a computer, you give the computer an instruction to store the data on a tape or disk. (COMPUTING)
Try to get into the habit of saving your work regularly...
Import your scanned images from the scanner and ~ as a JPG file.
VERB: V n, V as n
7.
If a goalkeeper ~s, or ~s a shot, they succeed in preventing the ball from going into the goal.
He ~d one shot when the ball hit him on the head.
VERB: V n
•
Save is also a noun.
Spurs could have had several goals but for some brilliant ~s from John Hallworth.
N-COUNT
8.
You can use ~ to introduce the only things, people, or ideas that your main statement does not apply to. (FORMAL)
There is almost no water at all in Mochudi ~ that brought up from bore holes.
= apart from
PREP
•
Save for means the same as ~ .
The parking lot was virtually empty ~ for a few cars clustered to one side.
= apart from
PREP-PHRASE
9.
to ~ the day: see day
to ~ face: see face