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savings

/sey-ving/US // ˈseɪ vɪŋ //UK // (ˈseɪvɪŋ) //

储蓄,积蓄,存款,节约

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
    • : compensating; redeeming: a saving sense of humor.
    • : thrifty; economical: a saving housekeeper.
    • : making a reservation: a saving clause.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a reduction or lessening of expenditure or outlay: a saving of 10 percent.
    • : something that is saved.
    • : savings, sums of money saved by economy and laid away.
    • : Law. a reservation or exception.
prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : except: Nothing remains saving these ruins.
    • : with all due respect to or for: saving your presence.
conj.连词 conjunction
  1. 1
    • : except; save.

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Examples

  • In 2018, Holvey tried to shrink OFRI’s budget by 60% and use the savings to help combat wildfires.

  • It’d cost $5 billion to build and wouldn’t produce savings, consultants estimate, until 2063.

  • The court ruled that Xu’s death had been a direct result of the stress of losing her family’s savings.

  • Devendra Pant, chief economist at market analytics firm India Ratings and Research, believes India won’t necessarily see a broad rise in savings.

  • Poseidon is contracted to provide up to 56,000-acre feet per year and the two-week lapse amounted to about $15 million in savings for the Water Authority.

  • And even those who consider themselves great patriots prefer to keep their savings in foreign currency.

  • He had been swindled out of his life savings—around $8 million—by his former manager and lover Kelley Lynch.

  • None of the SARs reports any projected savings attributable to a higher rate.

  • [I]f some little savings and loan in Middle America was going to lose its shirt,” Anders thinks during one deal, “too bad.

  • I was dreading that moment, because there I was thinking I was wasting all of my money and I would have no more savings.

  • A savings bank is not a true bank of deposit, providing circulating credit.

  • Many savings banks especially are thus organized and continued.

  • A former chapter speaks of promises to pay certain savings by the use of Trevithick's inventions prior to his leaving for America.

  • The agreement was that patentees should have one-fourth part of the savings of coal above twenty-six millions.

  • He was one of the originators of the New York historical society, and of the Savings bank.