dumping
IPA: dˈʌmpɪŋ
noun
- The disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value.
- Selling goods at less than their normal price, or even at a loss, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly.
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Examples of "dumping" in Sentences
- Domestic "dumping" is predatory pricing, an RPA offese.
- This ailment earned the title dumping syndrome, and suffering patients would feel nauseated, clammy, and sweaty.
- I have tried to talk to him and he keeps telling me that his pile will eventually turn into mulch and therefore the dumping is justified.
- Announcing a campaign to boost the local manufacturing industry, the body objected to what it called the dumping of inferior foreign products on South African markets.
- Specter, who is in a tough primary race in the Rust Belt state of Pennsylvania, said Chinese subsidies and what he called dumping are "a form of international banditry."
- We altered Chevron's "We Agree" ads ever-so-slightly to highlight the company's greenwashing efforts as well as its role in dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic oil pollution in the Ecuadorean Amazon.
- The thing is that now, with the monopoly price of oil, with the depressed prices of sugar in what we call the dumping ground of the international market, to buy one ton of oil today you almost need one ton of sugar.
- And, finally, this may seem odd to hear, but the person we believe is Barack Obama's biggest obstacle in dumping the Chicago Way is his own wife, Michelle Obama, who has interlaced her adult life around it and worked directly for Daley's Chicago Way.
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