scrapheap
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scrap·heap
also scrap heap (skrăp′hēp′)n.
1. A pile or heap of waste material.
2. A place for discarding useless or worthless material.
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scrapheap
(ˈskræpˌhiːp)n
1. a pile of discarded material
2. on the scrapheap (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
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Noun | 1. | scrapheap - an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dump - a piece of land where waste materials are dumped |
2. | scrapheap - pile of discarded metal cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
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scrapheap
nounon the scrapheap discarded, ditched (slang), redundant, written off, jettisoned, put out to grass (informal) Thousands of miners have suddenly found themselves on the scrapheap.
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scrapheap
scrap heap [ˈskræphiːp] nCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
scrapheap
[ˈskræpˌhiːp] n → ammasso di rottamito throw on the scrapheap (fig) → mettere nel dimenticatoio
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