salvageable

[sal-vij-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. able to be saved from ruin or failure; recoverable or redeemable.

   They're going to have to confront their hurt feelings and their long history, and figure out whether their relationship is salvageable.

Other Word Forms

• nonsalvageable adjective
• salvageability noun
• unsalvageable adjective
• unsalvageably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of salvageable¹

salvage ( def. ) + -able ( def. )

Example Sentences

Some of those figures, such as information on job creation and on wholesale prices, could be salvageable because companies provide a portion of it directly to the BLS.

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And the excavator operator took the time to sift through the rubble with the two in search for anything salvageable.

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His refrigerator fell on the floor, and belongings were not salvageable, except a box holding childhood photos and his baby blanket.

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A good visual cue for a salvageable tree is the growth of new bark beneath its burned outer layer, said Mellinger.

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A whistleblower has told Panorama there was a "pattern" of "pigeonholing" small businesses as "distressed" when they were "salvageable".

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