salvage
IPA: sˈæɫvʌdʒ
noun
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- (Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- Obsolete spelling of savage. [(derogatory) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.]
verb
- (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) to rescue.
- (transitive, of discarded goods) to put to use.
- (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- (Philippines) To perform summary execution.
- (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
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Examples of "salvage" in Sentences
- She was involved in the salvage.
- The company was able to salvage the vessel.
- The loss and salvage almost broke the owner.
- Salvage training came at the end of the month.
- Ship was abandoned and the salvage was impracticable.
- The unauthorized salvage of wrecks is called wrecking.
- The exception to that rule is in the case of treasure salvage.
- This enabled the salvagers to recharge the submarine's batteries.
- In general, the reward of salvage is higher than the remuneration of towage.
- In the mid 1970s, the hotel was partially dismembered for salvage materials.
- That, I think, could be the enduring lesson we salvage from the Teen Mom phenomenon.
- Make what you call a salvage job of it, and your pickings, mister, 'ull be out and away beyond the value of what we've been obliged to make you leave behind you.'
- Although he works occasionally at commercial salvage, what Travis McGee really likes to salvage is the wounded heart, the "broken bird," usually a very attractive female to whom he offers his own brand of therapy in the large bed of his gently rocking boat.
- “We must give General Petraeus and the Americans he has the honor to command adequate time to salvage from the wreckage of our past mistakes a measure of stability for Iraq and the Middle East, and a more secure future for the American people,” said McCain.
- A mother reaches around the baby strapped on her chest to scoop up beads marked VINTAGE, V for the vast enchanted who sleepwalk through the fair, lifting tongs forged by a local smith, as though to salvage from a great fire icons of a past flimsy as a chain of paper dolls, bare as a brass fist with a missing flagpole.