noun
dump
CEFR B1
a site where refuse and discarded material is collected and left
In a sentence
Six example sentences with dump, each labelled with its topic.
The town closed its old dump in 1994 and capped the mound with clay, grass, and a methane vent.
Environment
Archaeologists learn more from a medieval dump than from any palace, because people discard what they never think about.
History
Contractors hauled forty loads of broken plaster to the dump before the restoration of the east wing could begin.
Architecture
Tipping fees at the county dump doubled in a year, and the town's recycling rate rose almost immediately.
Economics
The vote to site the new dump near the river split the council and cost two members their seats.
Politics
Old monitors and phones pile up at an electronics dump outside the city, where workers strip out the copper.
Technology
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