0 a large metal plate used to bring food, drinks, or letters to people, especially in a formal situation:
a silver salver
The dog with its bone, in the upper right, becomes transformed by stages into a waiter bearing a silver salver of food.
If an oil spill results, liability could attach both to the tanker and to the salver.
The insurance market is not prepared to put itself at double risk and therefore excludes oil pollution liability from the salver's cover.
Special messengers could walk up the gravel drives and through the ducal halls, bearing the ballot papers on silver salvers.
We had given this valuable export market of one of our basic industries on a silver salver to the competition.
He received a silver salver for his great services, not only to his own country but to the world at large.
In time the business inevitably starts to slide, the chairman finds himself the recipient of the customary silver salver and, if he is lucky, a very small golden handshake.
We have been told that salvers are consequently finding it impossible to obtain cover in the insurance market for their potential oil pollution liability when assisting tankers.
