wreck yard

English

Noun

wreck yard (plural wreck yards)

1. The location of a dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought. Their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal, are sold to recycling companies.

Synonyms

• (dismantling location): boneyard, breaker's yard, junkyard, salvage yard, scrapyard, scrapheap, wrecking yard, wrecker's yard

Translations

location of dismantling business

• Catalan: desballestador m
• Czech: vrakoviště n
• Finnish: hajottamo, romuttamo, autopurkamo
• French: (Quebec,informal) cour à scrap (fr) f, casse automobile f
• German: Schrottplatz (de) m
• Polish: cmentarzysko (pl) n