face-saving

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[onlybeforenoun] intended to protect sb's reputation and to avoid embarrassment: a face-saving compromise

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

face-savingEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus face-savingEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Is face-saving a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, face-saving is tagged as adjective.

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