Etymology
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land + fill
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landfill (third-person singular simple present landfills , present participle landfilling , simple past and past participle landfilled )
( transitive ) To dispose of (garbage ) by burying it at a landfill site.
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A landfill site in Managua, Nicaragua.
landfill (countable and uncountable , plural landfills )
( countable ) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth .
( uncountable ) The material so disposed of.
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist [1] , volume 407 , number 8837 , page 74 :If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
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site at which refuse is buried
Arabic: مَرْدَم m ( mardam )
Basque: zabortegi
Catalan: abocador (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 堆填區 / 堆填区 ( deoi1 tin4 keoi1 ) , 垃圾堆填區 / 垃圾堆填区 ( laap6 saap3 deoi1 tin4 keoi1 )
Mandarin: 填埋地 (zh) ( tiánmáidì ) , 垃圾場 / 垃圾场 (zh) ( lājīchǎng )
Czech: skládka (cs) f
Finnish: kaatopaikka (fi)
French: décharge (fr) f , dépotoir (fr) m
Georgian: ნაგავსაყრელი ( nagavsaq̇reli )
German: Deponie (de) f , ( garbage ) Mülldeponie (de) f , Müllhalde (de) f , Müllabladeplatz (de) m
Greek: χωματερή (el) f ( chomaterí )
Hungarian: szeméttelep (hu)
Indonesian: tempat pembuangan akhir , TPA ( initialism ) , tempat pembuangan sampah
Irish: láithreán líonadh talún m
Italian: discarica (it) f
Khmer: ទីលានចាក់សម្រាម ( tii liən cak sɑmraam )
Macedonian: депо́нија f ( depónija ) ( garbage )
Malay: tapak pelupusan sampah
Navajo: tsʼiilzéí nehegeehédi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fyllplass m
Nynorsk: fyllplass m
Plautdietsch: Schuntaka m
Polish: wysypisko n
Portuguese: lixão m , aterro sanitário (pt) m
Russian: сва́лка (ru) f ( sválka ) мусора (ru) m ( musora ) , полиго́н (ru) m ( poligón ) для (ru) ( dlja ) захоронения (ru) n ( zaxoronenija ) отходов (ru) pl ( otxodov )
Slovak: skládka odpadu
Spanish: vertedero m , tiradero m , relleno sanitario m , basural m , basurero (es) m
Swedish: soptipp (sv) c
Tagalog: tambakan ng basura
Turkish: çöplük (tr)
Ukrainian: сміттєзвалище n ( smittjezvalyšče )
Welsh: claddfa sbwriel f
Yiddish: מיסטבאַרג m ( mistbarg )
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