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Dumping

noun

1.

Selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market.

Dump

verb

(past & past part. dumped; pres. part. dumping)

1.

Throw away as refuse.

2.

Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly. Synonym: ditch. "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"

3.

Sell at artificially low prices. Synonym: underprice.

4.

Drop (stuff) in a heap or mass.

5.

Fall abruptly. Synonym: plunge.

6.

Knock down with force. Synonyms: coldcock, deck, floor, knock down.

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"Dumping" Quotes from Famous Books

... between two bents, and, as the caps were topped by strips of timber of triangular section, with a width of 12 in. on the base and a height of 6 in., protected by a 6 by 6-in. steel angle, each set of hoppers presented 90 lin. ft. of continuous dumping room. The bottoms of the hoppers, set at an angle of 45 deg., were formed by 12 by 12-in. timbers laid longitudinally, running continuously throughout each set, and covered by 3-in. planking. The partitions were formed with 4-in. planks securely spiked to uprights from the floor of the ...

— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 - The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 • George C. Clarke

... use her eyes with fresh vigilance. She noticed one or two places where carts and men were busy, seemingly, with the endeavour to fill up the North river; at least they were carrying out loads of earth and dumping it into the water. She was tired of talking by this time, and waited to ask an explanation till the roar of the car-wheels should be out of her ears. They came to scattered buildings; then the buildings seemed less scattered; then the train ...

— The House in Town • Susan Warner

... his new garbage system (the garbage was to be towed twenty miles to sea and there dumped), The Laird forbade further dumping on the Sawdust Pile. When the necessity for more dredger-work developed, in order to keep the deep channel of the Skookum from filling, he had the pipes from the dredger run out to the Sawdust Pile and covered the unsightly spot with six feet of rich ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... dumping those. They'll only float, and the Second Mate or the Skipper will be sure to ...

— The Ghost Pirates • William Hope Hodgson

... may have been a trifle hasty, Retief, in attempting to restrain you. Blaspheming the native gods and dumping the banquet table are rather extreme measures, but your resentment was perhaps partially justified. I am prepared to be lenient with you." He fixed a choleric eye ...

— The Yillian Way • John Keith Laumer

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