DUMPING GROUND


Meaning of DUMPING GROUND in English

( dumping grounds)

If you say that a place is a dumping ground for something, usually something unwanted, you mean that people leave or send large quantities of that thing there.

Eastern Europe is rapidly becoming a dumping-ground for radioactive residues.

N-COUNT : usu N for n , supp N [ disapproval ]

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