saver

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saver (plural savers)

1. One who saves.

   a saver of souls

   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

2. One who keeps savings more than usual.

   He's a saver and she's a spender; you'd think the marriage would be doomed, but he keeps them from going into bankruptcy and she makes sure they have a lot of fun.

3. A ticket or coupon that offers a discount.
   • 2017, Off Track Planet's Travel Guide for the Young, Sexy, and Broke:

     Tickets are cheaper the younger you are—snag a youth ticket (if you're twenty-five or under) for a 35 percent discount. If both you and your travel partner are twenty-six or older, the Small Group Saver will knock off 15 percent.

These words are easily confused with this one:

• savour, savor
• saviour, savior

• AVREs, Raves, avers, raves, sarve, vares, veras

saver

1. Alternative form of saveour

Inherited from Old French savoir, saveir, from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapĕre (“taste, know”).

saver

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) to know

From Proto-West Germanic *saifr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːfer/
• (Late Old Frisian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaːwer/

sāver m

1. spittle, saliva

• sēver

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

saver

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) Alternative form of savair (“to know (how to do something)”)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere (“taste, know”). Compare Italian sapere.

saver

1. (transitive) to know (how to)
2. (transitive) to be able to; can