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What (who) is saving - definition

LIQUIDITY PREFERENCE
Savings rate; Rate of savings; Save and invest; Subscriber Savings Account; Saving (economics); Domestic savings; Saving (money); Personal savings; Saving rate
  • Personal saving as a percentage of [[disposable personal income]] in the US (1960 - 2022) - The spike in 2020 is attributable to the effects of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]}}

saving         
I. a.
1.
Preserving, sparing, redemptory.
2.
Economical, frugal, sparing, thrifty, careful.
3.
Reserving.
II. prep.
1.
With exception, excepting, in favor of.
2.
Without disrespect to.
III. n.
Exception, reservation.
saving         
¦ noun
1. an economy of or reduction in money, time, etc.
2. (savings) money saved, especially through a bank or official scheme.
3. Law a reservation; an exception.
¦ adjective [in combination] preventing waste of a particular resource: an energy-saving light bulb.
¦ preposition
1. except.
2. archaic with due respect to.
Origin
ME: from save1; the preposition prob. from save2, on the pattern of touching.
saving         
(savings)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A saving is a reduction in the amount of time or money that is used or needed.
Fill in the form below and you will be making a saving of ?6.60 on a one-year subscription.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
Your savings are the money that you have saved, especially in a bank or a building society.
Her savings were in the Post Office Savings Bank.
N-PLURAL

Wikipedia

Saving

Saving is income not spent, or deferred consumption. Methods of saving include putting money aside in, for example, a deposit account, a pension account, an investment fund, or as cash. Saving also involves reducing expenditures, such as recurring costs. In terms of personal finance, saving generally specifies low-risk preservation of money, as in a deposit account, versus investment, wherein risk is a lot higher; in economics more broadly, it refers to any income not used for immediate consumption. Saving does not automatically include interest.

Saving differs from savings. The former refers to the act of not consuming one's assets, whereas the latter refers to either multiple opportunities to reduce costs; or one's assets in the form of cash. Saving refers to an activity occurring over time, a flow variable, whereas savings refers to something that exists at any one time, a stock variable. This distinction is often misunderstood, and even professional economists and investment professionals will often refer to "saving" as "savings".

In different contexts there can be subtle differences in what counts as saving. For example, the part of a person's income that is spent on mortgage loan principal repayments is not spent on present consumption and is therefore saving by the above definition, even though people do not always think of repaying a loan as saving. However, in the U.S. measurement of the numbers behind its gross national product (i.e., the National Income and Product Accounts), personal interest payments are not treated as "saving" unless the institutions and people who receive them save them.

Saving is closely related to physical investment, in that the former provides a source of funds for the latter. By not using income to buy consumer goods and services, it is possible for resources to instead be invested by being used to produce fixed capital, such as factories and machinery. Saving can therefore be vital to increase the amount of fixed capital available, which contributes to economic growth.

However, increased saving does not always correspond to increased investment. If savings are not deposited into a financial intermediary such as a bank, there is no chance for those savings to be recycled as investment by business. This means that saving may increase without increasing investment, possibly causing a short-fall of demand (a pile-up of inventories, a cut-back of production, employment, and income, and thus a recession) rather than to economic growth. In the short term, if saving falls below investment, it can lead to a growth of aggregate demand and an economic boom. In the long term if saving falls below investment it eventually reduces investment and detracts from future growth. Future growth is made possible by foregoing present consumption to increase investment. However, savings not deposited into a financial intermediary amount to an (interest-free) loan to the government or central bank, who can recycle this loan.

In a primitive agricultural economy, savings might take the form of holding back the best of the corn harvest as seed corn for the next planting season. If the whole crop were consumed the economy would convert to hunting and gathering the next season.


Examples of use of saving
1. That‘s not saving the planet –– it‘s saving you money.
2. "This saving is part of AGL‘s company–wide, cost saving programme previously disclosed to the market," it said.
3. Surprisingly perhaps, many of the highest saving economies were poor, while some of the lowest saving countries were rich.
4. Then we shifted the mission from saving ourselves from threat to saving Iraqis from Hussein and for democracy.
5. Here we have a man saving his own life at the same time saving those over others.