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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who saves or rescues from evil, destruction, or death; a preserver; a savior.
  • noun One who economizes, is frugal in expenses, or lays up or hoards.
  • noun A contrivance for economizing, or preventing waste or loss: as, a coal-saver.
  • noun A Middle English form of savor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who saves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who saves.
  • noun slang one who keeps savings more than usual.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who saves (especially money)
  • noun someone who saves something from danger or violence

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to save + -er

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