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Answer for the clue "Reduction in cost ", 6 letters:
saving

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adj. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: redemptive , redeeming(a) , saving(a) ] characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saving \Sav"ing\ (s[=a]v"[i^]ng), prep. or conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. ``Saving your reverence.'' --Shak. ``Saving your presence.'' --Burns. None of us put ...

Usage examples of saving.

SA Banish delivered all four of the Abies children into safety, including single-handedly saving the lives of the oldest and the youngest at the expense of his own.

But ask yourself if you truly are willing to bet your savings, your job, or your life that Saddam Hussein will not use a nuclear weapon or embark on some new aggression in the belief that his nuclear weapons will deter the United States.

Jesus, aiming to detach the mind from this world by concentrating on the horrors of hell, the saving truth of the gospel story, and the example of Christ.

I raced among the mob of followers, who grasped at me as if I were their saving god, as I searched desperately for where Asteria might have run among the chaotic defenses.

And she prepared herself in the Bene Gesserit fashion for the wait, accumulating patience, saving her strength.

Margaret Brye had intervened, repaying The Shadow for saving her that time when Larry had fired.

He was a Blackhail hammerman, a sworn warrior of eight seasons, celebrated for saving Arlec Byce on Bannen Field and holding the Ganmiddich roundhouse with a force of just eleven.

But although that Thrasillus was joyfull of the death of Lepolemus, whom he did greatly hate, yet he cloked the matter with a sorrowfull countenance, he fained a dolorous face, he often imbraced the body which himselfe slew, he played all the parts of a mourning person, saving there fell no teares from his eyes.

The remaining copartners have no right of compulsion or coercion against the seceding member, for he, saving the obligations already contracted, is as free to withdraw as they are to remain.

Ye are receiving this day a crowned covenanted king, pray for saving grace to him, and that God would deliver him and us, out of the hand of these cruel enemies, and bless his government, and cause us to live a quiet and peaceable life under him in all godliness and honesty.

So lovely were these seven sisters when they stood in the darksome vault, disrobed of all clothing saving a cymar of white silk, that their charms moved the hearts of those who were not mortal.

I need not say that I did not comply with his wishes, but I can vouch for the real pleasure I felt in finding that I had succeeded in saving that honest and simple farmer from the impostors who would have ruined him.

But I think the old method of electing Senators, where it was necessary that a man should have a reputation through an entire county to be chosen, to be better than the system of electing them by small single districts, and I think the slight property qualification was highly useful as a stimulant to saving and economy.

Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them?

Yet his unexpected evisceration was destined to enable the greatest menace to the health of the United States since the swine flu to flourish in the very temple Gregory Green Gideon had consecrated to saving America from dietary perdition.