salvage1 verbsalvage2 noun
salvagesal‧vage1 /ˈsælvɪdʒ/ verb [transitive] 
VERB TABLE
salvage
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | salvage |
| he, she, it | salvages | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | salvaged |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have salvaged |
| he, she, it | has salvaged | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had salvaged |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will salvage |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have salvaged |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am salvaging |
| he, she, it | is salvaging | |
| you, we, they | are salvaging | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was salvaging |
| you, we, they | were salvaging | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been salvaging |
| he, she, it | has been salvaging | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been salvaging |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be salvaging |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been salvaging |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- If you no longer care for your partner, it is time to ask what can be salvaged from your relationship.
- Retailing and tourism can't salvage an ailing economy.
- Some observers doubt whether the peace process can be salvaged.
- The company is busy trying to salvage its core business.
- The fire had destroyed most of the building, but we managed to salvage a few valuable items.
- The house was built of timber salvaged from an earlier building.
- A huge fire blazed outside on which we piled everything that could not be salvaged.
- Beginning Sunday, fish bag-limit restrictions will be lifted at four lakes so that anglers can salvage fish that may be lost.
- I see you've salvaged your sleeping-bag, Mr Parsons.
- Only something dramatic can salvage the promise he once showed, and Norris knows he can not do it alone.
- Retailing and tourism can't salvage an ailing economy.
- She could never hope to rescue her heart, but at least she could salvage her pride.
- Some 25 pounds of enriched uranium were apparently salvaged from Osirak.
- The one real consolation that could be salvaged from the whole sorry affair was that the system had worked in the end.
Longman Language Activatorto help an organization, business, relationship etc
to do something to help a business, country, relationship etc that is having serious problems and will soon fail: · Bob and Martha worked hard to save their marriage, for the sake of the children.save something from something: · Financial experts are trying to save one of Britain's biggest holiday companies from bankruptcy.
to help an organization, business, or country that is having serious financial problems, for example by lending money or improving the way it is organized: · The World Bank hopes that these emergency measures will rescue the Zambian economy.· The city council had continued to overspend, assuming that the federal government would come to the rescue.rescue something from something: · He reorganized the family business, rescuing it from severe debt.
to help a person, business, or organization that is having serious financial problems by lending or giving them money: bail out somebody: · The government bailed out the ailing car company in order to protect jobs.bail somebody out: · He owed thousands of dollars, and his mother had to sell land to bail him out.bail somebody out of something: · You can't expect your father to bail you out of trouble all the time.
to do something to help a company or relationship when it is having serious problems, so that it does not fail completely: · The company is busy trying to salvage its core business.· Retailing and tourism can't salvage an ailing economy.salvage something from something: · If you no longer care for your partner, it is time to ask what can be salvaged from your relationship.
to save a person or company that is in serious financial difficulties and is soon going to fail, by giving them enough money to continue: · Just before my business went bankrupt, my father threw me a lifeline in the form of a $10,000 loan.· The Administration refuses to throw a lifeline to the troubled automobile industry.
to stop something from being damaged or lost to save objects, buildings, places etc that are in danger of being damaged or destroyed: · We could only save some clothes and a few pieces of furniture before the house burned down.· The Landmark Trust is a charity which rescues buildings of architectural interest.save/rescue something from something: · It is almost too late to save the rainforest from destruction.· A historic woollen mill has been rescued from the threat of demolition.
to save something, especially something valuable, from a place where other things have already been damaged, destroyed, or lost: · Drivers hope to salvage some of the ship's cargo.· The fire had destroyed most of the building, but we managed to salvage a few valuable items.salvage something from something: · The house was built of timber salvaged from an earlier building.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
He fought to salvage the company’s reputation.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1to save something from an accident or bad situation in which other things have already been damaged, destroyed, or lost: He fought to salvage the company’s reputation.· Abercrombie's work is not alone in its attempt to salvage the sociology of knowledge in recent years.· So finally, in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the exercise as a whole, the following workshop activity was developed.
· She could never hope to rescue her heart, but at least she could salvage her pride.
VERB· He would rather go down fighting, and try to salvage whatever he could from the wreckage of his dreams.· However, to try to salvage these items would be very costly.· Two sergeants and I stayed behind to try to salvage as much as we could of our stores of food.· Celia tried to salvage what she could, but she knew few of the journalists personally.
Divers hope to salvage some of the ship’s cargo.salvage something from something They managed to salvage only a few of their belongings from the fire.2to make sure that you do not lose something completely, or to make sure that something does not fail completely SYN save: He fought to salvage the company’s reputation.salvage1 verbsalvage2 noun
salvagesalvage2 noun [uncountable] WORD ORIGINsalvage2
Origin:
1600-1700 French, Old French salver; ➔ SAVE1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The developers have planned for the salvage and reuse of the building's decorations.
- We found the statue in a local salvage yard.
- How does the archaeologist set about locating sites, other than through documentary sources and salvage work?
- If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder.
- It was argued that the fierce weather which had prevented a salvage operation also helped break up the oil.
- The growth of salvage work also leads us to ask: Who today actually are the searchers in archaeology?
- The probe focuses on vehicles that were intended to be stripped for salvage by the Arizona Department of Corrections.
- We walk through this user-friendly dump, exchanging salvage stories.
- What is going on in salvage timber sales.
- When the review is completed, the injunction could be lifted, and salvage logging could begin in the Southwest, too.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a massive salvage operationCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1when you save things from a situation in which other things have already been damaged, destroyed, or lost: a massive salvage operation· It was argued that the fierce weather which had prevented a salvage operation also helped break up the oil.· On important archaeological sites torn up by windblown salvage operations were carried out.· The more dramatic was the salvage operation.· The changes in ownership by salvage operation between franchise rounds have already been mentioned.· A massive salvage operation was undertaken.
a massive salvage operation2things that have been saved from an accident, especially when a ship has sunk