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save-all
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun save-all has 3 senses
- save-all(n = noun.artifact) Array - a receptacle for catching waste products for further use; Array is a kind of receptacle
- save-all(n = noun.artifact) Array - a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail; Array is a kind of canvas, canvass, sail, sheet
- save-all(n = noun.artifact) Array - a net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship; Array is a kind of mesh, meshing, meshwork, net, network
CIDE DICTIONARY
save-all, n. [Save + all.].
Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Totten. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
save-all
Economy
N economy, frugality, thrift, thriftiness, care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment, savings, prevention of waste, save-all, cheese parings and candle ends, parsimony, cost-cutting, cost control, economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing, parsimonious, underpaid, sparingly, ne quid nimis, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit, magnum est vectigal parsimonia.
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