salvage

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salvage

The salvage team carefully recovers crates from the sunken ship's deck.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • The act of saving a ship, its crew, or its cargo from destruction: This refers to the rescue operation itself, typically from perils like shipwreck or fire.
    • The act of saving goods or property from damage or loss: This extends the meaning to saving any valuable items from various dangers, such as a building fire or flood.
    • Property saved from destruction: This refers to the actual items or goods that have been successfully rescued.

  2. Verb:

    • To save from ruin, destruction, or harm: The core action of rescuing something valuable from a dangerous or disastrous situation.
    • To collect and reuse discarded material: A more specific meaning involving the recovery of waste materials for further use.
Usage Examples
  • Noun:
    • The salvage of the ancient artifacts from the sunken ship was a major archaeological success.
    • After the fire, the insurance company assessed the salvage.
  • Verb:
    • Divers worked to salvage the cargo from the wreck.
    • She managed to salvage her reputation by issuing a sincere apology.
Advanced Usage
  • "Salvage operation": A planned effort to save something from loss.
    • A complex salvage operation was launched to recover the aircraft's black box.
  • "Salvage value": The estimated worth of an asset at the end of its useful life.
    • The machine's salvage value was factored into the company's depreciation calculations.
Variants and Related Words
  • Salvageable (adj): Capable of being saved or recovered.
    • Fortunately, most of the data on the hard drive was salvageable.
  • Salvor (n): A person or ship engaged in salvage operations.
    • The salvor was awarded a percentage of the recovered cargo's value.
Synonyms
  • Rescue: To save from a dangerous or distressing situation.
  • Recover: To get back or regain something lost.
  • Retrieve: To regain possession of something.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Salvage" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. The verb is typically used transitively on its own.)

Related Idioms
  • "Salvage something from the wreck/wreckage": To manage to save or gain something positive from a failure or disaster.
    • We lost the match, but we can still salvage some pride from our strong performance in the first half.
salvage

The salvage team carefully recovers crates from the sunken ship's deck.

Noun
  1. the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
  2. the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
  3. property or goods saved from damage or destruction
Verb
  1. collect discarded or refused material
    • She scavenged the garbage cans for food
  2. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

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