disposer
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4.3
- noun
- /dɪsˈpoʊzər/
:
triturador
- Strict and joint-and-several liability would continue to apply to all current and future waste disposal to ensure that generators, transporters, and disposers would have incentives to handle waste responsibly.
Examples
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How do things happen as the disposer has disposed them?
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Recycling an industrial waste material is likely to require that the recycler become a legal "disposer" of that material under the regulations.
Academic text (1994) -
The Court, in holding that New Jersey could not close its open landfills to out-of-state disposers even if the state's ultimate purpose in doing so was to protect health and safety, refused to accept solid waste.
Academic text (1999) -
[SINK DISPOSER GRINDS]
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I stacked the dishes, carried them to the kitchen, and, with trembling hands, scraped the large pieces of leftover veal into the frenzied gargle of the disposer.
Fiction book (1991) -
The absence of a harmonized EC definition of waste led, in the EC Commission's view, to the distortion of competition between producers and disposers of waste and to trade barriers in the EC.
Academic text (1992) -
The kitchen disposer efficiently grinds food scraps into small pieces for disposal.
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She installed the new disposer under the sink to help reduce food waste in the kitchen.
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A modern disposer can quickly eliminate leftovers, making clean-up much easier after meals.
Synonyms
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2.7
A device under a kitchen sink that grinds food waste so it goes down the drain
A machine that breaks things like food and tissue into small pieces for disposal and processing
Antonyms
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5.5
A person who keeps many things and rarely throws them away, making their home very full
How Powerful
- US
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2.7
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4.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disposer comes from the parts dis- 'apart' and pose 'to put'. So a kitchen disposer is a machine that 'puts away' or 'gets rid of' food scraps.