Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "dumping ground".
Only he's poor, this whole polity is poor, and it can't ever be anything else, in fact, because it's a dumping ground for merely posthuman also-rans, the singularitarian equivalent of australopithecines.
She saw Calligan and another man turning the abandoned mall site into a dumping ground for toxic waste.
Instead of using Hell as a holding area for prize prisoners, they've been using it as a dumping ground.
Instead of using Hell as a holding area for prize prisoners, theyve been using it as a dumping ground.
He and Giordino had stumbled on Fort Foureau's secret, an underground dumping ground for nuclear waste on an unheard-of colossal scale.
Because Fort Foureau in the western Sahara seemed an ideal dumping ground, he goes into partnership with Zateb Kazim as a buffer against domestic or foreign protest.
It was an ensemble that the cat evidently did not appreciate, for she gave a slight, dismissive mew of distaste and walked off in the direction of Ratso's backpack, which, for all practical purposes, had become her happy dumping ground.
Finally, while you'll be getting some good people there, particularly at the start, they're also using Region Four as something of a dumping ground.
Radioactive dumping ground, ten degrees north of the equator, far from any of the heat vents.
The Santander diplomatic service was supposed to be a harmless dumping ground for wellnxmnected upper-class playboys.
It was said by some that he was lacking in imagination, and he had certainly not been appointed governor of a raw backwater dumping ground for troublemakers and second sons because of his overwhelming political acumen.
Somebody's using Europa Nova as their personal dumping ground, and it's going to stop now—.
Somebody's using Europa Nova as their personal dumping ground, and it's going to stop now-before something comes through that we can't stop from killing anyone.
This will be the dumping ground for every incompetent, troublemaker or sociopath who can't hold office, and there will be no protection against it.