an amount of money you keep or the reduction in cost you get by spending less
Using public buses instead of taxis gave Maria a saving of nearly fifty dollars during her trip.
There is a ten-percent saving on all books this weekend at the local store.
✦ From Middle English savinge, formed from save + -ing, originally meaning the act of preserving and later the money kept.
the act of rescuing someone or something from danger or loss
The quick saving of the drowning child amazed the crowd.
His role in the saving of historic paintings earned him an award.
✦ From Old French ‘sauvage’ and Latin ‘salvare’, meaning to make safe; extended in English to the abstract noun sense of rescue.
