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scrap·heap also scrap heap  (skrphp)

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

on the scrapheap (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	scrapheap - an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter garbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish heap, trash heap, trash pile dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard, 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

noun

on the scrapheap discarded, ditched (slang), redundant, written off, jettisoned, put out to grass (informal) Thousands of miners have suddenly found themselves on the scrapheap.

Translations

scrapheap scrap heap [ˈskræphiːp] n

(lit) → tas m de ferraille

(fig) on the scrap heap → au rancart, au rebut

scrapheap [ˈskræpˌhiːp] n → ammasso di rottami
to throw on the scrapheap (fig) → mettere nel dimenticatoio