disposal plant
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- noun
- /dɪsˈpoʊzəl plænt/
- Specialized
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planta de tratamiento de residuos
- Life-support system for agribusiness farms, sewage disposal plants, reservoirs, and now vast alternative energy sites...
- waste disposal plant
Examples
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Residents expressed concerns about the pollution caused by the nearby disposal plant.
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Or a nuclear waste disposal plant... if they can dump their junk in some landfill where the results of the leakage won't be discovered for forty years (long after the current management will be retired and gone, and the company may be dissolved), well, that's just tough bananas.
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The city council approved the construction of a new disposal plant to improve waste management.
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After years of planning, the modern disposal plant was finally opened to handle the community's waste effectively.
Synonyms
A place where dirty water from homes and businesses is cleaned and made safe
A place where dirty water is cleaned before it goes back into nature
How Big
- Specialized
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4.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'facility where waste is treated and disposed' is directly and compositionally built from 'disposal' (the process of removing unwanted items) + 'plant' (an industrial facility/building). This straightforward noun+noun combination is cross-linguistically common and would be inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Disposal plant comes from using plant to mean a 'factory' or place with machines and disposal meaning 'to get rid of' waste. So a disposal plant is literally a place where waste is treated and removed.