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salvor

salvor

1 9.9
A person or company that recovers ships and cargo from the sea
  • noun
  • /ˈsæl.vər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : salvador
  • As a skilled salvor, she has helped retrieve countless lost items from shipwrecks.

Examples

  • We're professional salvors... with a fortune on board.

    Ghost Ship (2002)

  • "Tiernan asked, 'Could any of these salvors be available to come here?'"

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Moe Fitch is the most respected and successful treasure salvor in the world.

    Fool's Gold (2008)

  • The salvor managed to recover valuable cargo from the sunken ship near the coast.

  • The company hired a salvor to recover their equipment after the storm damaged their vessel.

Synonyms

salvager
vssalvor
2 6.9

A person or company who recovers useful things from shipwrecks and accident sites

is the legal maritime term used for the same role

Surface Forms

salvor singular
salvors plural

Morphology

salvor = salvage (transparent) = salvage + or

The noun denotes the agent who performs 'salvage'; the derivation by adding the agentive suffix '-or' is direct, though the term is specialized.

Etymology

Salvor comes from the Latin root salv- meaning 'safe' or 'to save'. It is the same root as in save and salvage, so a salvor is someone who 'saves' property — often by recovering ships or cargo after a wreck.