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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scrapheap
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consign sb/sth to the dustbin/scrapheap/rubbish heap etcBritish English
▪ Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He liked the way female models were thrown on the scrapheap by their late twenties.
▪ The rejection meant our daughter was already on life's scrapheap.
▪ What does it mean if you have been there for 20 years and feel you are thrown on the scrapheap?
Wiktionary
scrapheap

n. 1 A pile in which junk is discarded. 2 (context figuratively English) A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas. 3 A junkyard.

WordNet
scrapheap

  1. n. an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter [syn: garbage heap, junk heap, rubbish heap, trash heap, junk pile, trash pile, refuse heap]

  2. pile of discarded metal

Usage examples of "scrapheap".

That military scrapheap that Marcill and Hartig landed near was the biggest one detected.

Most of the ’discoveries’ that mankind built a civilization upon after the fall of the Golden Age were actually rediscoveries of alien science, pickings gleaned from the scrapheaps of vanished prehuman civilizations.

The old mining town had been turned into a scrapheap of abandoned vehicles, half-built houses, woodpiles, junk heaps, and geodesic outhouses.