trash dump
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2.1
- noun
- /træʃ dʌmp/
- US
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vertedero
- One afternoon, my girlfriend, Evyn, and I arranged to meet D'Acosta at Paralelo, a pretty winery on the grounds of what was once a huge trash dump.
Examples
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The conditions are heartbreaking, living in Korah, living on a trash dump.
Blog text (14) -
These pastors are standing in the gap for them, as they themselves know what it is like to grow up living in the trash dump.
Blog text (5) -
This is a highly public space, close to the public toilets and trash dump.
Academic text (1993) -
After wandering and starving for three days, he finally made his way to live in the trash dump.
Blog text (5) -
We decided to attend a small church in the Korah trash dump area in Addis.
Blog text (5) -
There we have excavated in trash dumps, latrines, and yards.
Academic text (2004) -
Luckily for researchers, Charlton left plenty of evidence for this by keeping an enormous trash dump in the backyard that extended 40 feet from the rear of the house.
Academic text (2011) -
The women, winded and hot-faced, are told they are standing on a trash dump, where Anasazi Indians, centuries ago, had thrown their broken pots and garbage.
Fiction book (1994) -
The city built a new facility to manage waste instead of using the old trash dump.
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After the storm, a large amount of debris was left scattered around the trash dump.
Synonyms
214
1.1
A place where people leave large amounts of rubbish
54
3.5
A place where old cars and metal are kept to sell for parts or recycling
9
1.0
A place where people take and leave large amounts of waste
7
4.0
A place where people throw away unwanted things, often illegally
4
5.1
A place where people leave dangerous chemicals, often illegally
3
4.5
A piece of land where people throw away trash without control
3
2.4
A pile of garbage and old things people throw away
3
4.2
A messy pile of old broken things people throw away
2
4.4
A place where dangerous chemical waste is stored or dumped
2
2.7
A messy heap of old things that people throw away
1
1.3
A heap of thrown away things like paper and bottles
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2.3
A large pile of things that people have thrown away
1
5.4
A pile of old broken metal and other things kept to be thrown away
1
2.7
A pile of waste and old things
1
2.0
A large open area where people leave trash
1
4.0
A place where trash is buried and covered with earth to reduce smell and pollution
A piece of land where people dump waste from homes and factories
A place where people dump poisonous waste, often illegally or unsafely
A place where people dump poisonous materials that must be cleaned because they can harm people or nature
A pile of rubbish left outside in one place
A place that is very dirty and full of trash and bad smells
How Big
- US
1
2.1
- US
1
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'trash' (rubbish) with 'dump' (a place where rubbish is deposited), so 'trash dump' literally denotes a place where trash is deposited. This noun+noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Trash dump comes from the clear image of trash being dumped in one spot, a large open place where people leave and pile up garbage. So it means 'a place where waste is collected and kept for disposal'.