saving

Adjective

• characterized by thriftiness
  • wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution- Ellen Glasgow
    

• bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
  • saving faith
    
  • redemptive (or redeeming) love
    

Noun

• the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

• recovery or preservation from loss or danger
  • work is the deliverance of mankind
    
  • a surgeon's job is the saving of lives
    

• an act of economizing; reduction in cost
  • it was a small economy to walk to work every day
    
  • there was a saving of 50 cents
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  redemptive , redeeming(a) , saving(a) , preservation , rescue , deliverance , delivery , economy