dumping ground

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English

Noun

dumping ground (plural dumping grounds)

  1. A landfill.
  2. (figurative) Any place where unwanted items are sent.
    • 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 210:
      The Indian representative of a global trade union called IndustriALL warned that other clothes and accessories shipped overseas might also be radioactive because India has become a "dumping ground" for the West's hazardous waste.
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