noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The defence and energy departments, impervious to markets, are among the country's biggest polluters .
major
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The water authorities thus not only set and enforce pollution standards, they are major polluters themselves.
■ VERB
pay
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If the source can not be discovered, how can the polluter be forced to pay ?
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Ideally, polluters would pay the true costs of the degradation they cause.
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This stipulates that a polluter should pay for the repair of environmental damage.
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Both approaches can be justified on the principle that the polluter should pay .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All others should be brought up to modern standards using the principle that the polluter pays.
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He typically determines the nature and level of the demands to be made of a polluter .
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In the South-West, 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000, mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry.
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Increasingly, the courts search for past polluters and pass the bill to them.
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The defence and energy departments, impervious to markets, are among the country's biggest polluters.
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The Environmental Protection Agency could not collect an average of $ 8 million a day in fines and Superfund settlements against polluters.
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The secretive negotiations between administrators and polluters meant there was no public accountability.