book dumping
- noun
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desecho de libros
- Recent book dumping incidents have left piles of unsold textbooks outside the school gate.
Examples
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Volunteers organized a cleanup after complaints about book dumping behind the community center.
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The city council has introduced penalties to discourage book dumping in parks and alleyways.
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Don't engage in book dumping in our community!
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The recent book dumping near the park is concerning.
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Recent book dumping incidents have left piles of unsold textbooks outside the school gate.
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The city council has introduced penalties to discourage book dumping in parks and alleyways.
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Volunteers organized a cleanup after complaints about book dumping behind the community center.
Antonyms
How Irresponsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the practice of discarding books' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'book' (a published set of pages) with 'dumping' (the act of discarding or dropping something carelessly). This noun + -ing action pattern is a straightforward compositional construction found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended sense.
Etymology
The term book dumping comes from the picture of people leaving boxes or piles of books by the road or in a park and 'dumping' them like trash. That's why it now means 'throwing books away in public places'.