- 1a place where waste or garbage is taken and left a garbage dump the municipal dump a toxic/nuclear waste dump
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dirty place - 2(informal) (disapproving) a dirty or unpleasant place How can you live in this dump?
- 3a temporary store for military supplies an ammunition dump computing
- 4an act of copying data stored in a computer; a copy or list of the contents of this data see screen dump waste from body
- 5[countable] (slang) an act of passing waste matter from the body through the bowel to take a dump
for waste
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