landfill

English

Etymology

From land +‎ fill.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.fɪl/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

Verb

landfill (third-person singular simple present landfills, present participle landfilling, simple past and past participle landfilled)

1. (transitive) To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.

Derived terms

• landfillable
• landfill of history

 

Translations

to dispose of waste

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 填埋 (zh) (tiánmái)

• Czech: skládka (cs) f
• Finnish: viedä kaatopaikalle, loppusijoittaa kaatopaikalle
• German: deponieren (de), ablagern (de)
• Italian: scaricare (it) f, sversare
• Portuguese: aterrar (pt)
• Slovak: skládkovať
• Spanish: depositar (es), enterrar (es)
• Welsh: claddu sbwriel

Noun

A landfill site in Managua, Nicaragua.

landfill (countable and uncountable, plural landfills)

1. (countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• landfill indie
• landfill site

Translations

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 (pl) 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, dompe m (United States)
• Swedish: soptipp (sv) c
• Tagalog: tambakan ng basura
• Turkish: çöplük (tr)
• Ukrainian: сміттєзвалище n (smittjezvalyšče)
• Welsh: claddfa sbwriel f
• Yiddish: מיסטבאַרג m (mistbarg)

material so disposed of

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 填埋的垃圾 (tiánmái de lājī)

• Czech: odpad (cs) m
• Finnish: kaatopaikkajäte
• French: détritus (fr) m, déchet (fr) m
• German: Müll (de) m
• Irish: líonadh talún m

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} décharge (fr) f