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save is a verb and noun meaning "save from ruin, destruction, or harm". It is pronounced /ˈseɪv/ — sayv. It carries 12 recorded senses.
spend less; buy at a reduced price
make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
“This will save money”
“I'll save you the trouble”
“This will save you a lot of time”
spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
“This move will save money”
“The less fortunate will have to economize now”
(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
“the goalie made a brilliant save”
“the relief pitcher got credit for a save”
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for save come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.