A "salvage operation" refers to the process of retrieving, saving, or recovering something valuable from a situation that has gone wrong or is in a state of disaster or damage. Full definition
The $ 47,272 fine a Menasha - based company must pay after failing to safely remove asbestos from a former paper plant is proof, a state inspector contends, that there is a need for local oversight of salvaging operations. (dailyreporter.com)
The signing of the new 11 - country TPP marks the culmination of a massive salvage operation that kicked into gear after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal after he was sworn into the Oval Office last January. (canadianbusiness.com)
«I often have the impression that my conservative New Testament colleagues feel very uncomfortable, for I see them perpetually engaged in salvage operations,» he wrote in 1927. (religion-online.org)