landfill
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
landfill (third-person singular simple present landfills, present participle landfilling, simple past and past participle landfilled)
- (transitive) To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
Derived terms
Translations
to dispose of waste
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Noun
landfill (countable and uncountable, plural landfills)
- (countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
- (uncountable) The material so disposed of.
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
- If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
Derived terms
Translations
site at which refuse is buried
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material so disposed of
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