scrapping
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
scrapping
- present participle and gerund of scrap
Verb[edit]
scrapping
- Misspelling of scraping.
Noun[edit]
scrapping (plural scrappings)
- The act by which something is scrapped.
- 1993, N. Wijnolst, C. Peeters, P. Liebman, European shortsea shipping, page 11:
- The number of ship scrappings over the past five years has declined appreciably on an annual basis since the mid-1980s which was a period of intense shipbreaking activity.
- 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:
- Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood.