dumping

noun

dump·​ing ˈdəm-piŋ 

1

: the act of one that dumps

especially : the selling of goods in quantity at below market price

2

: the practice of refusing emergency medical care to poor or uninsured patients or of referring them to another hospital without that hospital's consent

called also patient dumping

Synonyms

• discarding
• disposal
• disposition
• jettison
• junking
• removal
• riddance
• scrapping
• throwing away

Examples of dumping in a Sentence

laws that prohibit the dumping of toxic materials

the dumping of last year's fashions by the garment manufacturers

Recent Examples on the Web

China’s sudden dumping of US debt would cause bond prices to fall, slashing the value of its own holdings and cutting into the value of foreign-exchange reserves. —Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 29 Nov. 2024

For a while, no one knew who was responsible for the dumping, according to the news outlet. —John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2024

In addition, the city of San Diego may charge dumping fees. —Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024

Later, the specter of environmental pollution came into play, a natural hypothesis for the industrial town about an hour from Niagara Falls, where the Love Canal disaster, in which toxic-chemical dumping was discovered in the late 1970s to have harmed residents over decades, still looms large. —Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing dumping

• dumping ground
• patient dumping