salvaging

English

Verb

salvaging

1. present participle and gerund of salvage

Noun

salvaging (plural salvagings)

1. The act by which something is salvaged.
   • 2000, Derek Sayer, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, page 16:

     But the continuity of this identity exists in, and only in, its perpetual salvagings and reconstructions in the face of repeated disruptions and discontinuities.