salvage

Meanings

Noun

• The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
• The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
• The compensation paid to the rescuers.
• The money from the sale of rescued goods.
• The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
• Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
• summary execution, extrajudicial killing

Verb

• to rescue.
• to put to use.
• To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
• To perform summary execution.
• To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.

Origin

• From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvo ("to make safe, secure, save"), from Latin salvus ("safe") with the English suffix .
• Alternative forms.
• From Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus, from silva. Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe.