- a place where waste or rubbish is taken and left
- (British English) a rubbish dump
- (North American English) a garbage dump
- the municipal dump
- a toxic/nuclear waste dump
Extra Examples- Radioactive waste has been found at the dump.
- They took the mattress to the dump.
- a new dump for nuclear waste
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- garbage
- refuse
- rubbish
- …
- site
- truck
- at a/the dump
- to a/the dump
- dump for
- …
- (also mine dump)(South African English) a hill that is formed when waste sand from the mining of gold is piled in one place over a period of time
- (informal, disapproving) a dirty or unpleasant place
- How can you live in this dump?
- a temporary store for military supplies
- an ammunition dump
- an act of copying data stored in a computer; a copy or list of the contents of this data see also screen dump
- [countable] (slang) an act of passing waste matter from the body through the bowels
- to have a dump
for waste
dirty place
for weapons
computing
waste from body
Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps from Old Norse; related to Danish dumpe and Norwegian dumpa ‘fall suddenly’ (the original sense in English); in later use partly imitative; compare with thump.
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