(American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points for the opposite team.
(American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defendagainst passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
(baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
(professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storagemedium.
(US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
“The newly proposed system will result in a saving of time, labor and space.”
“Using this service also typically results in a saving when it comes to paying for other accountancy services at the year-end.”
“He now overcame that profligacy in monied matters which had so much embarrassed his former years, and accumulated a significant saving out of the profits of his office.”
(medicine) A child who is born to provide an organ or celltransplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fataldisease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)
“If acetamide herbicides are used, grain sorghum seed must be pre-treated with a safener that protects it from injury caused by the acetamide herbicides.”
savedness
(Christianity) The quality of being saved, or rescued from the consequences of sin.