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Salvageable

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Adjective

1. salvageable

capable of being saved from ruin

Example Sentences:
'their marriage was not salvageable'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Salvageable

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noun
1. 
the act, process, or business of rescuing vessels or their cargoes from loss at sea
2. 
a. 
the act of saving any goods or property in danger of damage or destruction
b. 
(as modifier)
a salvage operation
3. 
the goods or property so saved
4. 
compensation paid for the salvage of a vessel or its cargo
5. 
the proceeds from the sale of salvaged goods or property
verb (transitive)
6. 
to save or rescue (goods or property) from fire, shipwreck, etc
7. 
to gain (something beneficial) from a failure
she salvaged little from the broken marriage

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Salvageable

see synonyms of salvageable
noun
1. 
a. 
the voluntary rescue of a ship or its cargo at sea from peril such as fire, shipwreck, capture, etc.
b. 
compensation paid for such a rescue
c. 
the ship or cargo so rescued
d. 
the recovery of a sunken or wrecked ship or its cargo as by divers
2. 
a. 
the saving or rescue of any goods, property, etc. from destruction, damage, or waste
b. 
any material, goods, etc. thus saved and sold or put to use
c. 
the value, or proceeds from the sale, of such goods, specif. of damaged goods, as involved in insurance claim settlements
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈsalvaged or ˈsalvaging
3. 
to save or rescue from shipwreck, fire, flood, etc.; engage or succeed in the salvage of (ships, goods, etc.)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Salvageable

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n.
1.
a. The rescue of a ship or its cargo from fire or shipwreck.
b. The ship or cargo saved in such a rescue.
c. Award given to those who aid in such a rescue when under no obligation to do so, especially in the form of a portion of the cargo.
d. The recovery of a sunken ship or its cargo by divers or submersibles.
2.
a. The act of saving imperiled property from loss.
b. The property so saved.
3. Something saved from destruction or waste and put to further use.
tr.v. sal·vaged, sal·vag·ing, sal·vag·es
1. To save from loss or destruction.
2. To save (discarded or damaged material) for further use.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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