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
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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
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The attorney general’s office settled a similar lawsuit in 2010 in which Walmart, operating more than 300 stores in California, paid $25 million and agreed to stop the dumping into local landfills that are not equipped to contain the hazardous products.
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Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
Over the years, the mounds of weaponry in the undersea dumping grounds have corroded and collapsed into one another, creating a gnarled, combustible mass of metals and explosive agents that make their recovery more complicated.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
Though the plant is more than 600 miles from Jeju, simulations predict that water will reach the island within five years of the initial dumping.
—Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
The United States took the view that defense against this scale of overcapacity or dumping is not protectionist or anti-trade but is instead an attempt to safeguard firms and workers from massive non-market distortions in another economy at scale with significant negative economic spillovers.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2024
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Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
Over the years, the mounds of weaponry in the undersea dumping grounds have corroded and collapsed into one another, creating a gnarled, combustible mass of metals and explosive agents that make their recovery more complicated.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
Though the plant is more than 600 miles from Jeju, simulations predict that water will reach the island within five years of the initial dumping.
—Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
The United States took the view that defense against this scale of overcapacity or dumping is not protectionist or anti-trade but is instead an attempt to safeguard firms and workers from massive non-market distortions in another economy at scale with significant negative economic spillovers.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Dumping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dumping. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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