Meaning & use
salvagable
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Capable of being saved, recovered, or restored to a usable condition.
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The insurance adjuster decided the flood-damaged car was still salvagable.
Not everything from the fire was lost; a few photographs proved salvagable.
A note on using this word
A less common variant spelling of salvageable, which drops the silent e; most dictionaries and style guides still prefer salvageable.
Words with a similar meaning
recoverableretrievable
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