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Word: salvage (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted
  • damaged
  • the compensation paid to the rescuers
  • the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation
  • the ship, crew or cargo so rescued
  • the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued

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Verb:

  • transitive Of discarded goods, to put to use
  • transitive Of property or people at risk, to rescue
  • transitive To make new or restore for the use of being saved

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