save
verb
[ seɪv ]
• keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger.
• "they brought him in to help save the club from bankruptcy"
Similar:
rescue,
come to someone's rescue,
save someone's life,
come to someone's aid,
set free,
free,
liberate,
deliver,
extricate,
snatch,
bail out,
bring off,
save someone's bacon,
save someone's neck,
save someone's skin,
preserve,
keep safe,
keep,
protect,
safeguard,
guard,
conserve,
salvage,
retrieve,
reclaim,
• keep and store up (something, especially money) for future use.
• "she had never been able to save much from her salary"
Similar:
put aside,
set aside,
lay aside,
put by,
put to one side,
lay by,
keep,
retain,
reserve,
keep in reserve,
conserve,
stockpile,
store,
hoard,
save for a rainy day,
keep for future use,
put in a safe place,
collect,
amass,
set by,
salt away,
squirrel away,
stash away,
hang on to,
Opposite:
waste,
fritter away,
use up,
• keep (data) by moving a copy to a storage location.
• "save the instructions to a new file"
• avoid the need to use up or spend (money, time, or other resources).
• "save £20 on a new camcorder"
Similar:
economize,
be (more) economical,
make economies,
scrimp,
scrimp and scrape,
be thrifty,
be frugal,
tighten one's belt,
cut back,
make cutbacks,
budget,
retrench,
husband one's resources,
cut costs,
cut expenditure,
draw in one's horns,
watch one's pennies,
pinch pennies,
rake and scrape,
Opposite:
spend,
be extravagant,
• prevent an opponent from scoring (a goal or point) in a game or from winning (the game).
• "the powerful German saved three match points"
save
noun
• (in soccer and hockey) an act of preventing an opponent's scoring.
• "the keeper made a great save"
• an act of saving data to a storage location.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French sauver, from late Latin salvare, from Latin salvus ‘safe’. The noun dates from the late 19th century.
save
preposition
• other than; except for.
• "no one needed to know save herself"
Similar:
except,
except for,
apart from,
but for,
other than,
besides,
aside from,
with the exception of,
bar,
barring,
excluding,
omitting,
leaving out,
saving,
outside of,
save
conjunction
• except.
• "little is known of his early life, save that he went to school in Brighton"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French sauf, sauve, from Latin salvo, salva (ablative singular of salvus ‘safe’), used in phrases such as salvo jure, salva innocentia ‘with no violation of right or innocence’.
