The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ECONOMY
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More clues leading to the result ECONOMY
- Judicious use of online fraud? Good grief!
- Company splashing money around, not practising this
- Prudent management shows class of airline
- Restraint that’s surprising after company stops one retiring
- Saving money excited holding company
- Firm in money management?
- New money protecting firm’s efficiency
- Organisation of money of country, principally?
- In brasserie, at the end, old trick: Everyman’s saving money
- Saving company invested in money supply
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The straight part
We know that "Saving" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case saving = economy.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ECONOMY mean?
ECONOMY noun- Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- Frugal use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
- The method of divine government of the world. (See w:Economy (religion).)
- The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- Management of one’s residency.
- Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money.