save all
[adjective]
Synonyms: stingy, chinchy, close, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, tight

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save-all noun. ['seɪvɔ:l] M17.
[from SAVE verb + ALL noun.]
1. A means of preventing loss or waste; spec. a container for keeping something which would otherwise be lost or unused. M17.

2. Hist. A device for burning a candle-end, as a pan with a projecting spike on which to fix the candle-end. M17.

3. A stingy person, a miser. Now dial. L18.

4. Nautical History. A sail set under another or between two others. L18.

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