1 [C] an amount of sth such as time or money that you do not need to use or spend:
Buy three and make a saving of 55p. * With the new boiler you can make big savings on fuel bills.
2 (savings) [pl.] money that you have saved, especially in a bank, etc:
He put all his savings into buying a boat.
3 (-saving) (in adjectives) that prevents the waste of the thing mentioned or stops it from being necessary:
energy-saving modifications * labour-saving devices * space-saving fitted furniture
seealsoFACE-SAVING
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for saving is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is saving a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, saving is tagged as noun.
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