landfill
IPA: ɫˈændfɪɫ
noun
- (countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
- (uncountable) The material so disposed of.
verb
- (transitive) To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
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Examples of "landfill" in Sentences
- I don't think the term "landfill" is an appropriate synonym.
- Rather it ends up in landfill, where it takes as long to break down as everything else and may actually contribute more greenhouse gases than traditional plastic packaging.
- Now there are virtually no remaining empty lots left to develop in Battery Park City, largely built on top of landfill from the excavated from the World Trade Center site in the 1960s.
- Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal There are virtually no remaining empty lots left to develop in Battery Park City, a neighborhood largely built on top of landfill from the excavated World Trade Center site in the 1960s.
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