salvage

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
2. (countable, uncountable)The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
3. (countable, uncountable)The compensation paid to the rescuers.
4. (countable, uncountable)The money from the sale of rescued goods.
5. (countable, uncountable)The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.

   “[...] 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.”

6. (countable, uncountable)The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
7. (attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable)Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.

   “salvage cars auction”

8. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of savage.

   “Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.”

9. (Philippines)Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.

verb

1. (transitive)To rescue.

   “Robin van Persie looked to have secured the points for the Gunners with a fine goal from Theo Walcott's through ball. But Perisic dipped a sublime 20-yard shot home to salvage a draw.”

2. (transitive)To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.

   “Prove or disprove, and salvage if possible.”

3. (transitive)To put to use.

   “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.”

4. (transitive)To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
5. (Philippines)To perform summary execution.
6. (Philippines)To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.

name

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

   “A man in Salvage, N.L., is being called a 'miracle man' by some residents in the community for lifting a vehicle off his son-in-law, but he says he's no hero.”

   “Cecil Stuckless was fixing a Jeep in Salvage, Newfoundland with his son-in-law, who was working under the car.”