scrapyard

English

Alternative forms

• scrap-yard, scrap yard

Etymology

scrap +‎ yard

Noun

scrapyard (plural scrapyards)

1. A junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
   • 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67:

     A steady procession of new Class 421 and '423' electric multiple units to the Southern Region from Derby and York allowed the despatch of many pre-nationalisation 2-BIL and 2-HAL units to scrapyards.

Translations

a junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廢料場／废料场 (fèiliàochǎng), 垃圾場／垃圾场 (zh) (lājīchǎng, lèsèchǎng)

• Czech: šrotiště n
• Dutch: sloperij (nl) f
• French: casse (fr) f
• German: Schrottplatz (de) m
• Greek: μάντρα (el) f (mántra)
• Hungarian: roncstelep (hu)
• Japanese: ゴミ捨て場 (gomisuteba)
• Polish: szrot (pl) m
• Portuguese: ferro-velho (pt)
• Russian: сва́лка (ru) f (sválka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: отпад

  Roman: otpad (sh)

• Spanish: chatarrería f, cementerio (es) m
• Swedish: skrotupplag n
• Turkish: hurdalık (tr), hurdacı (tr)