dumping ground
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- noun
- /ˈdʌmpɪŋ ɡraʊnd/
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vertedero
- Covering nearly 50 square miles, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground for all sorts of waste.
- became a dumping ground
Brand YouTube channels are corporate video dumping grounds.
- Brand YouTube channels are corporate video dumping grounds.
- In previously almost all the waste is sent to the dumping ground.
- And so like, I guess all the cats just used the yard as a as a dumping ground, literally.
Examples
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A dumping ground for what no other borough, no other township, or no other city will accept.
Academic text (2000) -
My home office is a dumping ground for all my mess.
Blog text (22) -
The school's just a dumping ground.
Fiction book (1999) -
Chester should not and will not serve as a dumping ground.
Academic text (2000) -
We have no right to use our country as the dumping ground for the scum of the world.
Blog text (32) -
But our bodies don't have to be the dumping ground for dirty industries.
Blog text (12) -
That's a virtual dumping ground for homicide victims out there from all over the state.
Fiction book (1993) -
The area had proved to be a popular dumping ground for ship owners who did not wish to invest in repairing their unsafe vessels.
Fiction book (1992) -
Long before it was in vogue, Abu Talib transformed an abandoned dumping ground into a community education center.
Blog text (18) -
His backyard has turned into a dumping ground for old furniture and appliances.
Synonyms
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1.1
A place where people leave large amounts of rubbish
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A place where people take and leave large amounts of waste
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A piece of land where people throw away trash without control
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A pile of garbage and old things people throw away
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A messy pile of old broken things people throw away
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A messy heap of old things that people throw away
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A heap of thrown away things like paper and bottles
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A place where people put waste to be taken away
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A large pile of things that people have thrown away
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A pile of waste and old things
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A pile of old broken metal and other things kept to be thrown away
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A large open area where people leave trash
A piece of land where people dump waste from homes and factories
An area of land where people put rubbish
A pile of rubbish left outside in one place
A place that is very dirty and full of trash and bad smells
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'dump' (to discard) combined with 'ground' (the earth/place) yields a place where things are discarded. This agent-less noun phrase follows a transparent pattern (place of X) found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun dumping ground comes from the simple image of a piece of ground where people dump or 'throw away' their trash and old things. So, it means 'a place where unwanted items are discarded'.