to salvage something

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• salvage — [[t]sæ̱lvɪʤ[/t]] salvages, salvaging, salvaged 1) VERB: usu passive If something is salvaged, someone manages to save it, for example from a ship that has sunk, or from a building that has been damaged. [be V ed] The team s first task was to… …   English dictionary

• salvage — / sælvɪdʒ/ noun 1. the work of saving a ship or a cargo from being destroyed 2. goods saved from a wrecked ship, from a fire or from some other accident ● a sale of flood salvage items (NOTE: no plural) ■ verb 1. to save goods or a ship from… …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• salvage — sal‧vage [ˈsælvɪdʒ] verb [transitive] 1. to save goods or property from a situation in which things have already been damaged or destroyed: • Unsuccessful attempts were made to salvage the ship immediately after it sank. 2. if someone salvages a… …   Financial and business terms

• Salvage ethnography — is a branch of ethnography concerned with the practice of salvaging a record of what was left of a culture before it disappeared. Salvage ethnography is also a branch of anthropology and a subbranch of salvage anthropology.Some of the objectives… …   Wikipedia

• salvage — 1 verb (T) 1 to save something from a situation in which other things have already been damaged, destroyed, or lost: salvage sth from: We managed to salvage a few photo albums from the fire. 2 to do something to make sure that you do not fail… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• salvage — sal|vage1 [ˈsælvıdʒ] v [T] 1.) to save something from an accident or bad situation in which other things have already been damaged, destroyed, or lost ▪ Divers hope to salvage some of the ship s cargo. salvage sth from sth ▪ They managed to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• salvage — I UK [ˈsælvɪdʒ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms salvage : present tense I/you/we/they salvage he/she/it salvages present participle salvaging past tense salvaged past participle salvaged 1) a) to save property or possessions from a building… …   English dictionary

• salvage — sal|vage1 [ sælvıdʒ ] verb transitive 1. ) to save property or possessions from a building that has been damaged or destroyed in a fire, flood, etc.: Terrified residents tried desperately to salvage belongings from their devastated homes. a ) to… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• salvage — [ˈsælvɪdʒ] verb [T] 1) to save things from a ship or building that has been damaged or destroyed 2) to succeed in achieving something in a situation that has been a failure salvage noun [U] …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• salvage — n. & v. n. 1 the rescue of a ship, its cargo, or other property, from loss at sea, destruction by fire, etc. 2 the property etc. saved in this way. 3 a the saving and utilization of waste paper, scrap material, etc. b the materials salvaged. 4… …   Useful english dictionary

• salvage — I. noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, from salver to save more at save Date: 1645 1. a. compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck b. the act of saving or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary