| Main Entry: | salvage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | save, rescue |
Synonyms: |
deliver, get back, glean, ransom, reclaim, recover, redeem, regain, restore, retrieve, salve |
Antonyms: |
endanger, harm, hurt, injure, lose, waste |
| Main Entry: | acquisition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obtaining or receiving |
Synonyms: |
accretion, achievement, acquirement, acquiring, addition, attainment, buy, gain, gaining, learning, obtainment, possession, prize, procuration, procurement, procuring, property, purchase, pursuit, recovery, redemption, retrieval, salvage, winning |
| Notes: | acquisition is a material possession while an acquirement is a personal skill or knowledge that one gains |
Antonyms: |
dearth, lack, loss, need, want |
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving of freedom |
Synonyms: |
deliverance, emancipation, escape, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, rescue, salvage, salvation |
Antonyms: |
capture, confinement, imprisonment, restraint |
| Main Entry: | discount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction in cost |
Synonyms: |
abatement, allowance, commission, concession, cut, cut rate, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, drawback, exemption, knock-off, markdown, modification, percentage, premium, qualification, rebate, remission, rollback, salvage, something off, subtraction, tare |
Antonyms: |
increase, mark-up, premium, rise |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
Synonyms: |
abolition, abolitionism, autarchy, autonomy, citizenship, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, disengagement, disimprisonment, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption, extriction, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, representative government, rescue, salvage, salvation, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty |
Antonyms: |
communism, government, subjection, subordination, suppression |
| Main Entry: | get back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regain |
Synonyms: |
reclaim, recoup, recover, repossess, retrieve, salvage |
Antonyms: |
lose, miss, pass |
| Main Entry: | junk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | odds and ends; garbage |
Synonyms: |
clutter, collateral, debris, filth, hogwash, litter, miscellany, offal, refuse, rubbish, rubble, rummage, salvage, scrap, trash, waste |
| Main Entry: | loot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal goods |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, boost, burglarize, despoil, grab, gut, liberate, lift, loft, make, moonlight requisition, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, snitch, stick up, swipe, take, thieve, tip over |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | obtain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get, acquire |
Synonyms: |
access, accomplish, achieve, annex, attain, beg borrow or steal, capture, chalk up, collect, come by, compass, cop, corral, drum up, earn, effect, fetch, gain, gather, get at, get hold of, get one's hands on, glean, gobble up, grab, have, hoard, inherit, invade, lay up, make use of, nab, occupy, pick up, pocket, procure, purchase, reach, realize, reap, receive, recover, retrieve, salvage, save, score, scrape together, scrape up, secure, seize, snag, take, wangle, win |
Antonyms: |
forfeit, forsake, lose, sacrifice |
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, steal |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, burn, depredate, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, kip, knock off, knock over, lay waste, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, moonlight requisition, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, spoil, stick up, strip |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |