strip-mine
English
Noun
strip-mine (plural strip-mines)
- Alternative spelling of strip mine.
See also
Surface mining on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Surface mining
Verb
strip-mine (third-person singular simple present strip-mines, present participle strip-mining, simple past and past participle strip-mined)
- To mine by creating a strip mine, usually for coal or tar sands.
- The decision to strip-mine was opposed by environmentalists.