Save

  • (verb): Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort.
    Example: "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
    Synonyms: make unnecessary
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on save:

Trolley Problem - Related Problems - The Fat Man
... way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five ... strong most people who approved of sacrificing one to save five in the first case do not approve in the second sort of case ... However, in the second case, harming the one is an integral part of the plan to save the five ...
Beloved Isle Cayman
... As a British Overseas Territory, the official national anthem is still God Save the Queen ... National anthems of the Caribbean islands Anguilla (also God Save the Queen) Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bermuda (also God Save the Queen) Bonaire Cayman Islands (also God Save the ...
Rio (album) - Covers and Tributes
... Like the Wolf", by Reel Big Fish "Hungry Like the Wolf", by 13 Winters "Save a Prayer", by Eve's Plum "New Religion", by Jimmy Eat World Other covers include "The Chauffeur", by Tre Lux German happy hardcore band ... British dance act Shut Up and Dance's 1995 single "Save It 'Til the Mourning After" samples "Save a Prayer" whilst retaining its original chorus ... Also, in 2007, "Save a Prayer" was referenced in the lyrics of "Teddy Picker" from their album Favourite Worst Nightmare "I don't want your prayer ...
Operation Save America - Activities
... Operation Save America conducts mass protests at abortion clinics to promote pro-life cause ... Operation Save America has mobilized its members for other causes common to the Christian right, for example, opposition to Gay-Straight Alliances in public schools ... when a Gay-Straight Alliance was forming at that school, Operation Save America arranged to have some 700 people to show up at the school board meeting and get the board to ban the club from the school ...
United States Navy Chaplain Corps - Various Prayers - Navy Hospital Corpsman Prayer
... Just help me, oh Lord, to save lives when I can Because even out there is merit in man ... These are my friends I'm trying to save They are frightened at times, but You know they are brave ...

More definitions of "save":

  • (verb): Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.
    Example: "This move will save money"
    Synonyms: economize, economise
  • (verb): Refrain from harming.
    Synonyms: spare
  • (verb): Spend less; buy at a reduced price.
  • (noun): (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring.
    Example: "The goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"
  • (verb): To keep up and reserve for personal or special use.
    Synonyms: preserve

Famous quotes containing the word save:

    “Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “peace hath her victories
    No less renowned than war; new foes arise,
    Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains:
    Help us to save free conscience from the paw
    Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)