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Words Described by "Salvage"

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What Google Knows

Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty. Salvage may encompass towing, lifting a vessel, or effecting repairs to a ship.

Related Definition

  1. salvage:

    n The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.

    n The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.

    n The compensation paid to the rescuers.

    n The money from the sale of rescued goods.

    n The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.

    n (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.

    v (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) to rescue.

    v (transitive, of discarded goods) to put to use.

    v (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.

    n (Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.

    v (Philippines) To perform summary execution.

    v (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.

    n A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

    n Obsolete spelling of savage. [(derogatory) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.]


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