Usually means: Rescue, recover value from waste.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word salvage:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. salvage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. salvage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. salvage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. salvage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. salvage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Salvage, salvage: Wordnik
  7. salvage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. salvage: Wiktionary
  9. salvage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. salvage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. salvage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. salvage: Dictionary.com
  13. salvage (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. salvage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Salvage (Angel), Salvage (The X-Files), Salvage (Transformers), Salvage (short story), Salvage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Salvage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. salvage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. salvage: Rhymezone
  19. salvage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. salvage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. salvage: Free Dictionary
  22. salvage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. salvage: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. salvage: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. salvage: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. salvage: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. salvage: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. salvage: A Word A Day
  3. salvage: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Salvage: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. salvage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. salvage: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See salvageability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
noun:  The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
noun:  The compensation paid to the rescuers.
noun:  The money from the sale of rescued goods.
noun:  The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
noun:  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.
noun:  (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
verb:  (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) To rescue.
verb:  (transitive, logic) To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.
verb:  (transitive, of discarded goods) To put to use.
verb:  (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
noun:  (Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
verb:  (Philippines) To perform summary execution.
verb:  (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
noun:  A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
noun:  Obsolete spelling of savage.. [(derogatory) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.]

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