salvageable
salvage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈsæl.vɪdʒ/ us /ˈsæl.vɪdʒ/
the act of saving goods from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that has sunk or been damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood:
The company is going to finance not just the salvage, but also the cleanup.
They mounted a salvage operation after the fire.
things that have been saved from a ship, or from a fire, destroyed building, etc.:
He started trading in architectural salvage when he saw church interiors being destroyed.
Thousands of dollars' worth of marine salvage was landed at the piers.
Workers investigating the wreckage found a live bomb was still on board, making salvage more difficult.
There is still no timeline for completing the salvage.
This is salvage with a distinctly cool, modern edge.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preserving and saving
aspic
co-processing
conserve
deliverer
documentalist
documentarily
lifeguard
reclaim
recycled
reprieve
rescue
rescuer
reusable
rewild
sustain
sustainedly
unadopted
unappropriated
unassigned
undesignated

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Making things better
Restoring and reviving

salvage | American Dictionary

salvage
verb[ T ]
us/ˈsæl·vɪdʒ/
to save something valuable from damage, destruction, or loss:
After the storm, we were able to salvage some of our belongings, but the house was destroyed.

salvage | Business English

salvage
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈsælvɪdʒ/us
TRANSPORT, PROPERTY, INSURANCE
to save goods from being damaged or destroyed, especially from a ship that has sunk or been damaged, or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood:
Workers are attempting to salvage timber in the aftermath of the hurricanes.
to succeed in achieving or saving something that is in a difficult situation:
salvage a dealThe country still held out hope of salvaging its largest foreign investment deal.
salvage a businessHe is a corporate firefighter brought in to salvage a business that still has some valuable assets.
salvage share prices
salvage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈsælvɪdʒ/us
TRANSPORT, PROPERTY, INSURANCE
the act of saving goods from being damaged or destroyed:
the salvage of sthThe salvage of building materials from the site of the fire was continuing.
salvage efforts/operations
a salvage company
the salvage industry/market
COMMERCE (alsosalvage material)
waste material or material that has not been used that has value because it can be sold:
The pigs ate contaminated pet food sold to farms as salvage.
Many of the buildings have been erected out of salvage material.

Examples of salvage

salvage
Thus clarified, or rather redefined,26 the secularisation thesis can be salvaged.
Can anything be salvaged from the old negative paradigm?
Through trisomy rescue of the fetus and loss of the father's chromosome 15, the pregnancy is salvaged and not spontaneously aborted.
Marginal failure occurred in 1 of the 5 with complete response, but was successfully salvaged by surgery.
Here the second slot of a target branching nucleus is salvaged through assignment to the nucleus of an independent syllable.
Here the second slot of a primary branching nucleus is salvaged by assigning it to the nucleus of an independent syllable.
Certainly, moments of didactic clarity can be salvaged from these proceedings but enough to sustain a thesis about didactic legalism?
The augmented model seems too ad hoc in salvaging the analogy between persistence in behavior and concepts from physics, as my meta-analysis of these data affirms.
He seems less interested in building from the subject at this point than in mulling over another figure, a scale figure in crotchets salvaged from the aborted countersubject.
If a chair or wall is to be used 'as percussion' it will not be salvaged as a musical instrument, but will retain its flatness, its essential unmusicality.
The solution he offers transforms the entire structure of the theory while salvaging the notion that labor alone produces value and that in transactions equivalent values are exchanged.
With hindsight, it is clear that imported resources were dispersed too widely in efforts to preserve too much and hence salvaged less than they might have done.
Local authorities have been doing this since the time of the war and have salvaged much waste paper and waste metal.
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