salvage
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsælvɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvare (“to make safe, secure, save”), from Latin salvus (“safe”) with the English suffix -age.
Noun
salvage (countable and uncountable, plural salvages)
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
- [...] 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.
- (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- salvage cars auction
Derived terms
Translations
the rescue of a ship or its cargo from a hazardous situation
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the ship, crew or cargo so rescued
the compensation paid to the rescuers
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the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued
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anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted
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Verb
salvage (third-person singular simple present salvages, present participle salvaging, simple past and past participle salvaged)
- (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) to rescue.
- (transitive, of discarded goods) to put to use.
- 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:
- During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.
- (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
Derived terms
Translations
to rescue
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to put to use
to make new or restore for the use of being saved
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Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
salvage (plural salvages)
- Obsolete spelling of savage.. [16th–19th c.]
- 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 292, lines 855–856:
- Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”).[1][2]
Noun
salvage (plural salvages)
Verb
salvage (third-person singular simple present salvages, present participle salvaging, simple past and past participle salvaged)
- (Philippines) To perform summary execution.
- (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.[3]
References
- Lacaba, Jose (1995 August 3) “Salvage”, Carabeef Lengua, in Manila Times
- “salvage, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2015.
Further reading
- “salvage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “salvage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “salvage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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