weight-saving

noun

weight-saving

noun

1

An intentional reduction in the weight of an object.

Because of attention to weight-saving No 5751 weighed much the same as the shorter Maunsell coaches.1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 396:

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