🛟 Rescue or protection 🙏 Bringing salvation 💰 A reduction 🐿️ Thrifty

saving

91 2.1

Protecting people or things from danger

noun
/ˈseɪvɪŋ/

: rescate

The firefighters were praised for saving lives during the rescue operation.
life-saving
life-saving service
life-saving station

And then we can imagine saving life as we know it on Earth.

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Examples

By stopping this epidemic, we are saving people in my county.
Here we go saving puppies from a burning bus.
And then we can imagine saving life as we know it on Earth.

Danny Jones
And so saving their life is a good thing for them.
Thank you for saving our lives.
So it could be saving a marriage that is on the rocks, right?

Tom Bilyeu
And it was something as basic and simple as saving human beings.

Lex Fridman
And awareness is key in saving people from misery.
They talk about saving the middle class because the poor are toast.
PERHAPS YOU CAN EMPATHIZE WITH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT OF THEIR ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS.

Mad City (1997)

Synonyms

rescue

vssaving

702 1.0

An act of saving someone or something from danger

is broader, including general protection and long-term keeping safe not only immediate freeing

preservation

vssaving

125 3.8

Keeping things safe and in good condition, for example food or buildings

covers freeing and short-term protection, not only long-term maintenance

salvation

vssaving

73 5.7

Help that saves someone from danger or a very bad situation

focuses on the act of protecting rather than the resulting state

deliverance

vssaving

22 7.4

Being rescued from danger or harm

stresses the act of protecting rather than the experienced release

Antonyms

to neglect

189 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

endangerment

31 5.0

Putting someone or something at risk of harm

Compounds

saving grace

Informal

13 4.4

A good quality that makes someone or something acceptable despite faults

time-saving

7 3.3

Less time needed to finish a task or something that makes a task take less time

daylight saving

5 3.0

Setting clocks forward one hour during some months to have more daylight in the evening

daylight-saving time

4 3.1

People turn clocks forward one hour in summer to make evenings lighter

saving grace

Formal

1 8.5

A gift from God that makes a person holy and helps them be saved

face-saving

1 6.0

An action to help someone avoid embarrassment

energy-saving light

1 2.9

A light bulb that uses less electricity, like an LED or a compact fluorescent

energy-saving light bulb

1 2.5

A bulb that uses less electricity than old bulbs, for example LED bulbs

Surface Forms

saving singular

savings plural

Morphology

saving = save (transparent) = save + ing

This noun is a verbal noun (gerund) formed from 'save' + -ing denoting the action of saving (rescuing), which is directly predictable from the verb.

Etymology

Saving comes from the Latin salvare, 'to save', and is tied to the idea of being 'safe'. So a saving act is a rescue that makes someone safe from danger.