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US
/ˈseɪv/
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[ UK /sˈeɪv/ ]
[ UK /sˈeɪv/ ]
VERB
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make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
I'll save you the trouble
This will save you a lot of time
This will save money - save from ruin, destruction, or harm
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to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
She saved the old family photographs in a drawer - refrain from harming
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bring into safety
We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack -
record data on a computer
boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk - spend less; buy at a reduced price
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spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
This move will save money
The less fortunate will have to economize now - save from sins
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retain rights to
keep my job for me while I give birth
keep my seat, please
keep open the possibility of a merger -
accumulate money for future use
He saves half his salary
NOUN
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(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
the relief pitcher got credit for a save
the goalie made a brilliant save
How To Use save In A Sentence
- A third goal at that stage would have saved Rangers a lot of bother.
- We've been saved a lot of expense by doing the work ourselves.
- Buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat from the sun to save on heating costs.
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- Yet while pilotless drones are dehumanised and impersonalised, mobile phone ring tones and screensavers are instances of the humanity and personality of the people behind technology.
- Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
- ‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
- He became the icon that God had to smite to be able to save us, and suddenly the Lamb of God was smitten! FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
- This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
- I claim it is helping save the planet, being heated by the odd feline and my doona. The post in which I whine about the weather
