salvageable

American  

[sal-vij-uh-buhl] / ˈsæl vɪdʒ ə bəl /

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.

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Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of salvageable

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

Example Sentences

More than 100 pounds of waste is collected, much of it salvageable fishing equipment that is eagerly reclaimed by local fishers.

From Seattle Times

Pastor Brownlee said that he had asked his contractor to get rid of them because, to his eyes, they were not salvageable.

From New York Times

For example, Seattle requires that leaders of construction, building alteration and demolition projects of more than 750 square feet indicate potentially salvageable materials to bolster recycling and reuse initiatives.

From Seattle Times

During his daytime drudgery, Pershing discovers that the New Republic is destroying perfectly useful, salvageable equipment and technology simply because it used to be Imperial property.

From Salon

Berry spent the weekend with friends and family sorting through salvageable items at her destroyed home near a two-lane highway that traverses farm fields.

From Seattle Times