Main entry: rescue, saving, deliverance, delivery
Definition: recovery or preservation from loss or danger
Usage: work is the deliverance of mankind; a surgeon's job is the saving of lives
Definition: an act of economizing; reduction in cost
Usage: it was a small economy to walk to work every day; there was a saving of 50 cents
Main entry: saving, preservation
Definition: the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
Main entry: saving, redeeming, redemptive
Definition: bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
Usage: saving faith; redemptive (or redeeming) love
Main entry: saving
Definition: characterized by thriftiness
Usage: wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution- Ellen Glasgow