salvage
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- noun
- /ˈsæl.vɪdʒ/
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salvamento
- After the fire, the family's salvage allowed them to save many treasured items from their home.
- salvage effort
- salvage operations
- salvage excavations
Now, when a painting is so thoroughly damaged by an unskilled hand, we must reassess what's possible and also start thinking of salvage.
- Now, when a painting is so thoroughly damaged by an unskilled hand, we must reassess what's possible and also start thinking of salvage.
- I was on the USS Conserver, which was in salvage ship.
Examples
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PHOTO: Stripped of much of its superstructure during salvage operations, the hull of the Arizona lies partly submerged in silt.
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Your expedition is at the center of a storm of controversy over salvage rights and even ethics.
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There is nothing but salvage, on that ship.
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I'll take the salvage yards.
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The scheme to cheat me out of my salvage.
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We go in for salvage at daybreak.
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South of town, Old Highway 91, there's a salvage yard that belongs to me.
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The crew worked tirelessly to recover what they could from the shipwreck, a difficult salvage operation.
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The salvage company was able to retrieve valuable artifacts from the sunken vessel.
Synonyms
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1.0
An act of saving someone or something from danger
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3.2
Getting back things that were lost or stolen
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Etymology
Salvage comes from the Latin root salv- meaning 'safe' or 'to save', and it is like the English word save. So a salvage operation is the work of saving people or things from danger, such as a ship or its cargo.