Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.

    Bergung

    спасе́ниеspasénije, спаса́ниеspasánije

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

  2. (countable, uncountable)The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.

    Geborgene, Bergegut

  3. (countable, uncountable)The compensation paid to the rescuers.

    Bergelohn

  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.

  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

    B-Ware, C-Ware

  8. (Philippines)Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.

Examples

32 sentences
  1. Were you able to salvage anything?

    ruВам удалось что-нибудь спасти?

    deHast du etwas retten können?

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  2. I think that's an illegal salvage operation.

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  3. We were able to salvage some things.

    ruКое-что нам удалось спасти.

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  4. There's no hope in salvaging anything here.

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  5. I hope we can salvage the situation.

    ruНадеюсь, мы сможем спасти ситуацию.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the rescue of a ship or its cargo from a hazardous situation:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
the rescue of a ship or its cargo from a hazardous situation:
the ship, crew or cargo so rescued:
the compensation paid to the rescuers:
anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted:

Origin

From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvare (“to

From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvare (“to make safe, secure, save”), from Latin salvus (“safe”) with the English suffix -age.

Borrowed from Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”).

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