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saveable

Variant of save

transitive verb saved, saving

  1. to rescue or preserve from harm, danger, injury, etc.; make or keep safe
  2. to keep in health and well-being: now only in certain formulas: God save the king!
  3. to preserve for future use; lay by: often with up
  4. to prevent or guard against loss or waste of: to save time, to save a game
  5. to avoid, prevent, lessen, or guard against: to save wear and tear
  6. to treat or use carefully in order to preserve, lessen wear, etc.
  7. Comput. to copy (data, a file, etc.) from random-access memory to a disk, tape, etc. for storage
  8. Theol. to deliver from sin and its penalties

intransitive verb

  1. to avoid expense, loss, waste, etc.; be economical
  2. to keep something or someone from danger, harm, etc.
  3. to put by money or goods; hoard: often with up
  4. to keep; last
  5. Theol. to bring about deliverance from sin and its penalties

noun

  1. Sports an action that keeps an opponent from scoring or winning
  2. Baseball the preserving of a team's lead by a relief pitcher in the final inning

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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