Saving /(?)/

Sav·ing

Saving

a.
  1. Preserving; rescuing.
    He is the saving strength of his anointed.
    — Ps. xxviii. 8.
  2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
  3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
  4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.

Saving

prep. [or] conj.
  1. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
    None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
    — Neh. iv. 23.
    And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
    — Rev. ii. 17.

Saving

n.
  1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
  2. Exception; reservation.
    Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.

Phrases & Compounds
Savings bank
a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.