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A low area that has been filled in
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landfill
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a low area that has been filled in
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Landfill is the name of two fictional characters in the Transformers series.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a landfill site (= where rubbish is buried ) ▪ Recycling reduces the volume of waste which goes into landfill sites. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN site ▪ This causes problems in finding enough suitable landfill sites ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1916, from land (n.) + fill (n.). A euphemism for dump .
Usage examples of landfill.
Swamp landfill, which are areas near several refineries, and Exxon petrochemical, specifically.
He thought for a moment about his own little landfill of Chef Boyardee cans and general uncleanliness, which was next to ungodliness.
The vast tract of landfill, washing machines and rusty machinery, abandoned.
The vast wasteland of unruly landfill, a premium trash dump of the worst order.
It was a bit surreal in the wasteland here in the middle of the night amidst topographical blemishes in the blasted landfill heath.
Swamp still appeared benign to those whose daily job was to landfill and dump and level out the increasing bile and fodder.
She had never taken the ferry to Staten Island or seen the Fresh Kills landfill rising like a mountain along the coast.
As the prisoners silently resumed their movement toward the working face of the landfill, Duncan bent his gaze upward, toward the edge of the cliff ahead.
Duncan thought of the Engineers who had pulled him from the landfill mine.
Some, the leaner ones, those who had been toughened by forced labor in landfill mines and oil plantations, seemed less worn by the flight.
Tank was on his way to the landfill with the mattresses and bags of garbage.
Bannersburg landfill, near where the sheriff dumped all the confiscated booze from those moonshiners last year, that I visit when I need cheering up.
But then he managed to get his hands on some landfill and he was going to have it brought down in barges from Missouri.
A few months after the government put the regulation against liquid toxic waste in landfill into effect, they suspended it.
North Dade, the Munisport landfill is burning, and has been for weeks.