Search Result for "salvage":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. property or goods saved from damage or destruction;

2. the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction;

3. the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire;


VERB (2)

1. save from ruin, destruction, or harm;
[syn: salvage, salve, relieve, save]

2. collect discarded or refused material;
- Example: "She scavenged the garbage cans for food"
[syn: salvage, scavenge]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Salvage \Sal"vage\ (?; 48), n. [F. salvage, OF. salver to save,
   F. sauver, fr. L. salvare. See Save.]
   1. The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of
      the sea.
      [1913 Webster]

            Salvage of life from a British ship, or a foreign
            ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of
            goods.                                --Encyc. Brit.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Maritime Law)
      (a) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily
          assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
      (b) That part of the property that survives the peril and
          is saved. --Kent. Abbot.
          [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Salvage \Sal"vage\, a. & n.
   Savage. [Obs.] --Spenser.
   [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

154 Moby Thesaurus words for "salvage":
   abatement, admission, admission fee, agio, allowance, amends,
   anchorage, atonement, bank discount, blood money, breakage,
   brokerage, carfare, cash discount, cellarage, chain discount,
   charge, charge-off, charges, compensation, concession, conservancy,
   conservation, conservationism, consideration, cover charge, cut,
   damages, deduction, deliver, deliverance, delivery, demand,
   depreciation, discount, dockage, drawback, dues, entrance fee,
   environmental conservation, exaction, exactment, extract,
   extricate, extrication, fare, fee, forest conservation,
   forest management, free, freeing, guerdon, hire, honorarium,
   indemnification, indemnity, keeping, kickback, liberate,
   liberation, license fee, lifesaving, maintenance, meed, penalty,
   penalty clause, percentage, pilotage, portage, premium, preserval,
   preservation, price, price reduction, price-cut, protection,
   quittance, ransom, rebate, rebatement, recapture, reclaim,
   reclaiming, reclamation, recompense, recoup, recoupment, recover,
   recovery, recuperation, recycle, redeem, redemption, redress,
   reduction, refund, regain, regainment, release, remuneration,
   reoccupation, reparation, replevin, replevy, repossession,
   requital, requitement, rescue, restitution, restoration,
   resumption, retake, retaking, retribution, retrieval, retrieve,
   return, revindication, revival, reward, rollback, safekeeping,
   salvation, salve, satisfaction, save, saving, scot, scot and lot,
   set free, setoff, shot, smart money, soil conservation, solatium,
   storage, stream conservation, support, tare, time discount, toll,
   towage, trade discount, tret, trover, underselling, upkeep,
   water conservation, wergild, wetlands conservation, wharfage,
   wildlife conservation, win back, write-off