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ORPHAN SITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orphan site mean?
• ORPHAN SITE (noun)
The noun ORPHAN SITE has 1 sense:
1. a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup
Familiarity information: ORPHAN SITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("orphan site" is a kind of...):
Superfund site; toxic site; toxic waste area (a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up)
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