saving (verb)

  • 21daddle — verb a) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, The Victory Won, an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle… …

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  • 22scrimp and save — verb To scrimp greatly; to economize; to live very frugally, particularly when saving for something. I scrimped and saved to buy my first house. Syn: skimp and save …

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  • 23live paycheck to paycheck — verb To spend all that one earns without saving anything …

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  • 24save up — verb To accumulate money, especially for a specific, planned expenditure. Im saving up my tips for a new guitar …

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  • 25shake out — verb a) To agitate a piece of cloth or other flexible material in order to remove dust, or to try to make it smooth and flat. Thunder! he cried. A week! I cant do that; theyd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get… …

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  • 26save oneself — verb To refrain from having sex until one meets a suitable person to date or betroth or marry She told me shes saving herself for marriage …

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  • 27deliver — verb 1 goods/letters ADVERB ▪ free of charge ▪ The company will deliver free of charge. ▪ by hand, personally ▪ The package had been delivered by hand. ▪ …

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  • 28give — verb Give is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑authority, ↑benefactor, ↑chart, ↑council, ↑donor, ↑index, ↑jury, ↑move, ↑nature, ↑recording, ↑religion, ↑ …

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  • 29have — verb Have is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑hotel, ↑library, ↑mixture, ↑patient, ↑room, ↑sentence, ↑tape, ↑word Have is used with these nouns as the object: ↑A level, ↑ability, ↑ …

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  • 30make — verb Make is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑batsman, ↑company, ↑factory, ↑firm, ↑picture, ↑recipe, ↑sale Make is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accommodation, ↑accompaniment, ↑accusation, ↑ …

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