(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
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Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.
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An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
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1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
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However, we’ve reached the stage where our technological leaps and bounds no longer save us hours, or even minutes – they shave only seconds from our day-to-day tasks.
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2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian[1]: