salvager
/ˈsælvɪdʒər/
noun
- A person or thing that saves property from damage or destruction, especially from a shipwreck, fire, or disaster.
- The old ship was too dangerous to explore, but a professional salvager managed to bring up the captain's safe.
- The salvager dove into the wreck to recover valuable cargo.
- After the hurricane, a team of salvagers worked to retrieve furniture from flooded homes.
- A person who rescues or recovers something valuable from a difficult or hopeless situation.
- He became a salvager of forgotten recipes, collecting them from old family cookbooks.
- She was a salvager of lost documents, finding important papers in the trash.
- The volunteer acted as a salvager of abandoned pets, finding them new homes.
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