(n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
(n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
Example Sentences:
(1) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(2) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
(3) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(4) "It will be a dereliction of duty by those considering the bids if they choose to write off half a billion pounds of public investment and go with a football-only solution rather than the multiuse facility that was promised."
(5) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
(6) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
(7) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
(8) If we don't take these long-term decisions now we will be committing a serious dereliction of our duty to the future of this country."
(9) This 49-storey building has sat derelict in the city’s downtown for 17 years, after an economic crisis halted its costly development.
(10) It’s about why this government chose to not upgrade Don Dale and to throw children in a derelict male prison.” Lawrence said the problems of juveniles in NT prisons had to be addressed “by a system that’s properly resourced, providing nothing less than best practice which is acquitted by fully qualified and professionally trained staff, creating appropriate behavioural programs and education for adolescent offenders of various types and backgrounds”.
(11) In November, AUC confirmed that they planned to demolish at least 40% of the wall in order to tear down the derelict building behind it.
(12) During a recession in the 70s, London boroughs started buying up derelict, and even non-derelict, housing for the purposes of doing them up and letting them to council tenants; this, typically, is the outsourced version.
(13) The warehouses have no running water or sanitation, and the refugees and migrants live in derelict conditions, burning everything they can get their hands on to keep warm.
(14) In Poland , where temperatures have dropped to -22C, officials have been trying to direct homeless people away from derelict unheated buildings and into crammed shelters.
(15) In explaining the alcoholic process to the public, this fiction contributed to the general belief that the typical alcoholic was a Skid Row-like derelict.
(16) Mr Blair warned that failing to replace the current ageing plants would fuel global warming, endanger Britain's energy security and represent a dereliction of duty to the country.
(17) Thanks to the beneficence of its owner he and his allies have recently moved into a derelict 19th-century sea fort on the tiny island of Stack Rock, taking with them camping supplies and generators.
(18) The Senate and the House have been passive up until now and derelict in their responsibilities.
(19) Robert Morris, 34, is one of eight people of varying ages and backgrounds about to move into a derelict former children's care home in east London.
(20) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
Salvage
Definition:
(n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
(n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
(n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
(a. & n.) Savage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(2) Four of the eight CR patients had received an amsacrine-containing salvage regimen (ATA) prior to administration of the present moderate-dose cytosine arabinoside and mitoxantrone regimen; this indicates the lack of absolute clinical cross-resistance between the present combination and the daunorubicin- or amsacrine-containing regimens.
(3) (1) The results of re-irradiation as salvage treatment were poor.
(4) Immediate limb salvage was achieved in 31 of 36 limbs (86 percent).
(5) Early surgery in hydronephrosis may be indicated to salvage kidney function.
(6) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(7) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
(8) No homologous blood was transfused in TURP when salvaged autologous blood with or without preserved blood was retransfused to the patient.
(9) The outcome of salvage mastectomy depends on the disease-free interval from initial breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy to local-regional recurrence.
(10) These data support the aggressive use of reoperation with graft salvage when F-AKP or extra-anatomic graft failure reproduces critical ischemia.
(11) The use of the iron chelator desferrioxamine (DFX) did not benefit the endothelium or improve salvage of ischaemic flaps.
(12) Ten patients undergoing femoral-popliteal and femoral-tibial in situ saphenous vein bypass for limb salvage were studied to determine the effects of side branch arteriovenous fistulae on flow through the distal end of the graft into the outflow artery.
(13) [14C]Formate and [U-14C]glycine are also incorporated, but de novo synthesis is clearly lower than synthesis from salvage precursors, although similar to de novo synthesis in liver.
(14) In our view, the surgical procedure of choice for a salvage elbow is an elbow arthrodesis.
(15) Forty-four patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) which relapsed after chemotherapy were treated with salvage radiotherapy (S-RT) with curative intent.
(16) The nucleoside transport inhibitor dipyridamole can potentiate the cytotoxicity of methotrexate by a mechanism that was thought to be related to the inhibition of thymidine salvage.
(17) There was no significant difference when patients were stratified for diabetes (log rank = 2.213, p = no significance [NS]), operative indication (disabling claudication vs. limb salvage) (log rank = 0.0005, p = NS), or outflow (no profundaplasty vs. profundaplasty) (log rank = 2.011, p = NS).
(18) Other pharmacologic agents, including lidocaine, nitrates, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, and aspirin, have been used acutely in myocardial infarction in the hopes of preventing death and salvaging myocardium.
(19) Biosynthetic activities of nucleotides in the salvage pathway were about 100-300 times higher than those in the de novo pathway.
(20) We have used the Haemonetics Cell-Saver autotransfusion technique in over 6,500 cases since 1979, salvaging more than 11,000 units of packed red blood cells.