saver
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Noun
saver (plural savers)
- 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.
- (slang) One who keeps savings more than usual.
- He's a saver and she's a spender; you think the marriage would be doomed but he keeps them from going into bankruptcy and she makes sure they have a lot of fun.
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) sāver
Norman
Etymology
From Old French saveir, savoir, from Vulgar Latin *sapēre (“to know”), from Classical Latin sapiō, sapĕre (“taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”).
Verb
saver
Romansch
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Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Classial Latin sapiō, sapere (“taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p- (“to try, to research”).
Verb
saver
Venetian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Classical Latin sapere, present active infinitive of sapiō (“taste”). Compare Italian sapere.
Verb
saver
- (transitive) to know (how to)
- (transitive) to be able to; can
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