wreckerの意味・使い方・発音

wrecker

英 ['rekə] 美 ['rɛkɚ]

wrecker (n.): 1804, in reference to those who salvage cargos from wrecked ships, from wreck (n.). In Britain often with a overtones of "one who causes a shipwreck in order to plunder it" (1820); but in 19c. Bahamas and the Florida Keys it could be a legal occupation. Applied to those who wreck and plunder institutions from 1882. Meaning "demolition worker" attested by 1958. As a type of ship employed in salvage operations, from 1789. As a railway vehicle with a crane or hoist, from 1904.

1. The wrecker moved the wrecked cars to a safe place.: 障害物除去車は道路に駐車されている病気の車を安全な場所に引きずり出した。