[n] recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
[n] 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"
[n] the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
[adj] characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow