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salvage

/ˈsælvədʒ/

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What does salvage mean?

noun

  1. The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
  2. The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
  3. The compensation paid to the rescuers.
More meanings (13)

noun

  1. The money from the sale of rescued goods.
  2. The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
  3. The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
  4. Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
  5. Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
  6. (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of savage.

verb

  1. To rescue.
  2. To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.
  3. To put to use.
  4. To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
  5. To perform summary execution.
  6. To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.

proper noun

  1. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsælvədʒ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈsælvɪdʒ/
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Now had they reach’d the hills, and storm’d the seat Of salvage beasts, in dens, their last retreat.
VirgilThe AeneidTranslated by John DrydenProject Gutenberg ebook #228
Another scope suggested by the above is searching for pearl-oyster beds, sunken treasure, and assisting in salvage operations.
George WhaleBritish Airships, Past, Present, and FutureProject Gutenberg ebook #762
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One tribe worked the hose from the cupola tank until the firemen came, and the rest devoted themselves to salvage.
Jean WebsterDear EnemyProject Gutenberg ebook #238
The Household Salvage Brigade will constitute an agency capable of being utilised to any extent for the distribution of parcels newspapers, &c.
William BoothIn Darkest England, and the Way OutProject Gutenberg ebook #475
At the minimum, extensive Western aid and investment, especially in the tourist and oil industries, would seem necessary to salvage a desperate economic situation.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1992 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #48