rescue deliverance delivery saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger, work is the deliverance of mankind, a surgeon's job is the saving of lives |
economy saving | an act of economizing, reduction in cost, it was a small economy to walk to work every day, there was a saving ofcents |
racket fraudulent scheme illegitimate enterprise | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
preservation saving | the activity of protecting something from loss or danger |
face saver face saving | an act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige) |
bomb shelter airaid shelter bombproof | a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities, used during air raids |
fallout shelter | a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb |
pup tent shelter tent | a wedge-shaped tent, usually without a floor or windows |
shelter | a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger |
shelter | protective covering that provides protection from the weather |
shelter | temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons |
skeen arch skene arch scheme arch diminished arch | an arch whose height is less than half its width |
tent collapsible shelter | a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs), he pitched his tent near the creek |
weather deck shelter deck | upper deck having no overhead protection from the weather, but sheltering the deck below |
saving grace | a redeeming quality or characteristic, her love of music remains her one saving grace, her sense of humor has to be a saving grace, the saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs |
outline schema scheme | a schematic or preliminary plan |
scheme strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action |
pump-and-dump scheme | an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices, the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises |
pyramid scheme | a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit, when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in |
schema scheme | an internal representation of the world, an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world |
dodge dodging scheme | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery |
color scheme colour scheme | a planned combination of colors, the color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator |
system scheme | a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole, a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going |
incentive program incentive scheme | a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something |
tax shelter shelter | a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings |
grace saving grace state of grace | (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God, the state of one who is under such divine influence, the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin, it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church, the Virgin lived in a state of grace |
protection shelter | the condition of being protected, they were huddled together for protection, he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home |
daylight-saving time daylight-savings time daylight saving daylight savings | time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time, widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings |
scheme intrigue connive | form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner |
scheme | devise a system or form a scheme for |
shelter | invest (money) so that it is not taxable |
shelter | provide shelter for, After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people |
redemptive redeeming(a) saving(a) | bringing about salvation or redemption from sin, saving faith, redemptive (or redeeming) love |
face-saving | maintaining dignity or prestige, a face-saving compromise |
saving | characterized by thriftiness, wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution- Ellen Glasgow |