WordNet
n. a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dumpsite]
Usage examples of "garbage dump".
He calculated that four hundred kilometers of tether, twenty times the amount used for a garbage dump, would toss the little lifting body into an orbit with an apogee of five thousand kilometers above the Earth.
Through his electronic visor, Patrick could see that Wohl had stopped just outside an area that had previously been identified in satellite photos as a garbage dump, known by its map coordinate Bravo Two.
The area was unguarded and unsecured, and military and civilian personnel passed by it constantly without being stopped or challenged by anyone-there was no reason to suspect it was anything else but a garbage dump.
They look on it as a garbage dump, but we can put the space to far more significant use.
Which helped, because half our vista was of the biggest garbage dump on the planet.
He looked like something no dog would have dragged out of the village garbage dump.
He concealed his car behind the garbage dump and went down the path to the creek.
Only for major crimes did the police enter the Cromwell Village series of buildings and related garbage dump, parking lots, and nubbled roads.