To Omit
To Eliminate, To Skip, To Leave Out
transitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means conserve... but why stop there when you could try to omit everything and to eliminate everything? Just take exactly what you need, conserve it, and omit everything else.
You have (はぶ) what you have, and omit what you don't need. Perfect life.
最近はとても忙しいので、夕食を作る手間を省いてテイクアウトばかりしています。
I've been very busy these days, so I've been skipping meal prep and just buying to-go dinners.
説明がたくさん省かれていたので理解できませんでした。
A lot of the explanations were left out, so I couldn't understand it.
このロボットが多くの人手を省くはずだったが、状況は変化しないままである。
This robot was supposed to save us a lot of labor, but the situation remains unchanged.