| VERB | change | make unnecessary, save | make unnecessary an expenditure or effort |
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| Meaning | make unnecessary an expenditure or effort. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody something | |
| Synonym | save | |
| Broader | prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid | Keep from happening / happening or arising |
| Catalan | estalviar | |
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