salvage

1 property or goods saved from damage or destruction

2 the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction

3 the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

1 save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salve, relieve, save]

2 collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" [syn: scavenge]

English

Etymology

Noun

1. the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation
2. the ship, crew or cargo so rescued
3. the compensation paid to the rescuers
4. the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued
5. anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted
6. damaged
   • salvage cars auction.

Translations

• Norwegian: berging (1,2,4,5), bergingslønn (3)
• Polish: ocalenie (1)

Verb

1. Of property or people at risk, to rescue
2. Of discarded goods, to put to use
3. To make new or restore for the use of being saved

Translations

• Norwegian: redde, berge
• Polish: ocalić

Related terms

• salvation

Salvage may refer to:

• Salvage archaeology, an archaeological survey and excavation carried out in areas threatened by construction or development
• Salvage data, the process of extracting data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible primary storage media
• Salvage ethnography, the practice of salvaging a record of what was left of a culture before it disappeared
• Marine salvage, the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo and sometimes the crew from peril
• Salvage tug, a type of tugboat used to rescue or salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking
• Salvage value, the estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life
• Salvage, a 2006 American horror film
• Salvage 1, an 1979 ABC science fiction-comedy series
• "Salvage" (Angel episode), an episode of the television series Angel
• "Salvage" (The X-Files episode), an episode of the television series The X-Files
• "Salvage" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode), an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• Selvage, the uncut edge of woven fabric
• Extrajudicial punishment resulting in death is referred to as Salvage in the Philippines
• Vehicle salvage
• Waste sorting
• Salvage, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

See also

• Wrecking

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