salvage
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- noun
- /ˈsæl.vɪdʒ/
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material recuperado
- Many unique items were discovered among the salvage of the old building's debris.
- salvage yard
- architectural salvage
- salvage sale
He basically lives on a rusty salvage barge doing bits and bobs for the, for various Yemeni projects.
- He basically lives on a rusty salvage barge doing bits and bobs for the, for various Yemeni projects.
Examples
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After the Wallow Fire, the environmental planning necessary to approve areas for salvage logging took too long, exceeding the harvest window before insect infestations and deterioration of the smaller logs.
Academic text (2017) -
The company specializes in recovering salvage after natural disasters to help restore communities.
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Do you have any idea how much a ship like that could be worth in salvage?
Fiction book (2002) -
Last weekend I went to one of the big architectural salvage stores in Chicago, Salvage.
Blog text (26) -
I was at the salvage yard the other day and saw some cheap mirrors, so I bought them.
Blog text (21) -
We have a lot of plans, for example, the artwork salvage plan and the historic furniture and fittings salvage plans.
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Subsequently, this mill was unable to retool fast enough to process the larger salvage logs and soon closed.
Academic text (2017) -
Consumers who own a car with a title branded salvage, rebuilt, or reconstructed.
Blog text (8) -
There were parts of tanks arranged on the ground for salvage—treads, rollers, stacks of turrets with their 75mm gun barrels removed.
Fiction book (1996) -
The shipwreck brought in valuable salvage that could be restored for resale.
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Etymology
Salvage comes from the Latin root salv- meaning 'safe' or 'to save', the same root you can see in salvation and related to save. That is why salvage also means the goods or property that were rescued from a shipwreck, fire, or disaster.