Avoidance vs Saving - What's the difference?
avoidance | saving |
The act of annulling; annulment.
The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; – specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Any thing that is to be avoided
The courts by which anything is carried off.
A reduction in cost or expenditure.
(countable, usually plural) Something (usually money) that is saved.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
(obsolete) exception; reservation
* L'Estrange
(theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
Preserving; rescuing.
* Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
Thrifty; frugal.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 14:
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
Making reservation or exception.
With the exception of; except; save.
* Bible, Revelations ii. 17
Without disrespect to.
* Shakespeare
* Burns
As nouns the difference between avoidance and saving
is that avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment while saving is a reduction in cost or expenditure.As a verb saving is
.As an adjective saving is
(theology) that saves someone from damnation; redemptive.As a preposition saving is
with the exception of; except; save.avoidance
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Alternative forms
* avoidaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)saving
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Noun
- The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
- I invested all my savings in gold.
- Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He is the saving strength of his anointed.
- a saving cook
- Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
- a saving bargain
- The ship has made a saving voyage.
- a saving clause
Preposition
(English prepositions)- And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Saving your reverence.
- Saving your presence.
