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Noun saving has 3 senses
  1. economy, saving - an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents"
    --1 is a kind of fund, monetary fund; action; fund, monetary fund; action
    --1 has particulars: retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing; economy of scale
    Derived form: verb save5
  2. rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving - recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
    --2 is a kind of recovery, retrieval; recovery, retrieval
    --2 has particulars:
     lifesaving; redemption, salvation; reclamation, reformation; salvage; salvage; salvation; search and rescue mission
  3. preservation, saving - the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
    --3 is a kind of protection; protection
    --3 has particulars:
     environmentalism; conservation; self-preservation; reservation; immobilization, immobilisation
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