wrecker

wreck·er  (rkr)

n.

1. One that wrecks or destroys: a wrecker of dreams.

2.

a. One who is in the business of demolishing old buildings.

b. One who dismantles cars for salvage.

3.

a. A person, vehicle, or piece of equipment employed in recovering or removing wrecks, especially a truck with a hoist and towing apparatus used in towing disabled or wrecked vehicles.

b. One that salvages wrecked cargo or parts.

4.

a. One who lures a vessel to destruction, as by a display of lights on a rocky coastline, in order to plunder it.

b. A plunderer.

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wrecker [ˈrɛkə]

n

1. a person or thing that ruins or destroys

2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Chiefly US and Canadian a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars

3. (Transport / Nautical Terms) (formerly) a person who lures ships to destruction to plunder the wreckage

4. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a US and Canadian name for breakdown van

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job housewrecker, housebreaker - a wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker" knacker - someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
	2.	wrecker - someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks diversionist, saboteur ruiner, uprooter, waster, destroyer, undoer - a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" sleeper - a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
	3.	wrecker - a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) tow car, tow truck motortruck, truck - an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

Translations

wrecker [ˈrekəʳ] N

1. (= destroyer) (gen) → destructor(a) m/f (Hist) [of ships] → saboteador(a) m/f persona que que se dedicaba a provocar naufragios

2. (US) (= breaker, salvager) → demoledor m

3. (US) (= breakdown van) → camión-grúa m

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wrecker [ˈrɛkə^r] n (US) (= breakdown van) → dépanneuse f

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wrecker

n

(= ship wrecker) → Strandräuber m (der Schiffe durch falsche Lichtsignale zum Stranden bringt)

(Naut, = salvager) → Bergungsarbeiter(in) m(f); (= vessel) → Bergungsschiff nt

(US) (= breaker, salvager) → Schrotthändler(in) m(f); (for buildings) → Abbrucharbeiter(in) m(f)

(US: = breakdown van) → Abschleppwagen m

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wrecker [ˈrɛkəʳ] n (Naut) (salvager) → addetto al ricupero di relitti (Am) (breaker, salvager) → demolitore m; (breakdown van) → carro m attrezzi inv

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