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Salvage vs Lien - What's the difference?

salvage | lien |

As verbs the difference between salvage and lien

is that salvage is of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue while lien is .

As a noun salvage

is the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation or salvage can be .

salvage

English

(wikipedia salvage)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) salver, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation
  • the ship, crew or cargo so rescued
  • the compensation paid to the rescuers
  • the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued
  • anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted
  • damaged
  • * salvage cars auction.

    • Verb

    (salvag)
  • Of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 13 , author=Sam Lyon , title=Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Robin van Persie looked to have secured the points for the Gunners with a fine goal from Theo Walcott's through ball. But Perisic dipped a sublime 20-yard shot home to salvage a draw.}}
  • Of discarded goods, to put to use
  • To make new or restore for the use of being saved

    • Derived terms

    * salvageability * salvageable * salvager

    Related terms

    * salvation

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

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    lien

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A tendon.
  • (legal) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 7:
    • Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "lien")

    Derived terms

    * lienholder

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Bible, archaic)
    • If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...

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