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NGSL Rank: 565
save
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Meanings
verb
  • keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger.
    E.g. they brought him in to help save the club from bankruptcy
  • keep and store up (something, especially money) for future use.
    E.g. she had never been able to save much from her salary
  • keep (data) by moving a copy to a storage location.
    E.g. save the instructions to a new file
  • avoid the need to use up or spend (money, time, or other resources).
    E.g. save £20 on a new camcorder
  • prevent an opponent from scoring (a goal or point) in a game or from winning (the game).
    E.g. the powerful German saved three match points
noun
  • (in soccer and hockey) an act of preventing an opponent's scoring.
    E.g. the keeper made a great save
  • an act of saving data to a storage location.
preposition
  • other than; except for.
    E.g. no one needed to know save herself
conjunction
  • except.
    E.g. little is known of his early life, save that he went to school in Brighton

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