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dump | American Dictionary

dump
verb[ T ]
us/dʌmp/
to put down or drop something heavy without caring where it goes, or to get rid of something or someone no longer wanted:
The ship was accused of dumping garbage overboard.
She missed too many rehearsals and was dumped from the cast.
dump
noun[ C ]
us/dʌmp/(alsogarbage dump)
a place where people are allowed to leave their garbage:
You have to bring household garbage to the town dump.
infml A dump is also any place that is messy or that you do not like because it is of low quality:
Why are you staying in this dump?

dump | Business English

dump
verb
uk /dʌmp/us
[ T ]informal
to stop using or supporting something or someone:
The group has dumped plans for a giant US takeover after ruling that difficult stock market conditions would prevent it raising the cash.
The star was dumped by the record label after a string of failures.
[ I or T ] ECONOMICS
to sell goods so cheaply in another country that companies in that country cannot compete fairly:
The Commerce Department announced punitive tariffs against foreign paper manufacturers accused of dumping goods in the US below cost.
dump on sthThe producers of the goods are claiming that foreign manufacturers are dumping on the market.
[ T ] FINANCE
to sell large amounts of something that you do not want to keep:
As the stock rose, he dumped his shares, making $160,000.
[ T ] ENVIRONMENT
to throw something away in a place that is not suitable or allowed by law:
Often the toxic waste is dumped in local rivers or burned, increasing health and environmental problems.
[ T ] IT
to move information from a computer's memory in order to store it:
Dump all the data onto an external hard drive as a backup.

Examples of dump

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One valve exit directs the water t o a metering station, while the second exit leads t o a dump tank.
This population was more extensive than at the fuel dump and the animals appeared to be at higher densities.
Such a large value of energy can definitely not be possible with cavity dumped oscillators, especially delivering pulses of 10- 20 femtosecond (fs).
The morning's surf, breaking offshore and dumping heavily inshore, was clearly unmanageable but preparations went forward in hopes of an improvement.
Less obvious, butpotentially serious, are vegetables grown in market gardens built over old refuse dumps.
Some of these latter workshops may be dumps.
The assumption that heat generated from processing is dumped to the surroundings only via thermal radiation is a reasonable assumption for so-called planet-sized computers.
These same communities also created garbage dumps containing all their generated waste.
Proximity to a conservation area or to garbage dumps have remarkably large impacts on property prices.
Conversely, 'slender' cladding technology embodies more energy but is very likely to be dumped when the building is 19 demolished.
The low parts are also used as garbage dumps.
For example, the child sees a dinosaur, a drum, and a dump truck.
The presence of this peridomestic species in degraded forests (found in dumps near habitations) seemed to be related to human presence.
The residue from the boilers was dumped into the sea.
In this case, the main par t of the beam is dumped on the diamond target at once.
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