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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Thrifty 84% connected

Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.

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Thrifty 84% connected

Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.

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Broader term 4

Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Protection 76% connected

The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

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Recovery 76% connected

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

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Retrieval 76% connected

The act retrieving.

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Conservation 76% connected

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Curtailment 76% connected

The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.

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Reclamation 76% connected

The act or process of reclaiming.

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Reformation 76% connected

The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious o…

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Reservation 76% connected

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

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Retrenchment 76% connected

The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.

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Salvage 76% connected

The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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Salvation 76% connected

The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

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Self-preservation 76% connected

The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.

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Deliverance 92% connected

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Delivery 92% connected

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Economy 92% connected

The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a car…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Preservation 92% connected

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, pr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Redeeming 92% connected

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oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Redemptive 92% connected

Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rescue 92% connected

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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