Salvage

Definitions

1. Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
   Philippines
2. The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
   countable, uncountable
3. Obsolete spelling of savage.
   alt-of, obsolete
4. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
5. The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
   countable, uncountable
6. The compensation paid to the rescuers.
   countable, uncountable
7. The money from the sale of rescued goods.
   countable, uncountable
8. The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
   countable, uncountable
9. The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
   countable, uncountable
10. Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
    attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[...] the debris was hurled down the hillside on to the line and swept the engine off the track and into the sea; the engine in question⟳, ex-Cambrian 0-6-0 No. 874, was not considered to be worth salvage, and was abandoned.”

“salvage cars auction”

“Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have⟳ been my meagre Food.”

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