capitation vs salvage

capitation

noun
  • A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission. 

  • Performing a headcount; the counting of people. 

  • A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee. 

  • A poll tax. 

salvage

noun
  • The money from the sale of rescued goods. 

  • The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued. 

  • Summary execution, extrajudicial killing. 

  • The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation. 

  • The ship, crew or cargo so rescued. 

  • The compensation paid to the rescuers. 

  • Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods. 

verb
  • to rescue. 

  • To make new or restore for the use of being saved. 

  • To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial. 

  • To perform summary execution. 

  • to put to use. 

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