scrapheap

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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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, 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

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.

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Translations

scrapheap

scrap heap [ˈskræphiːp] n

(lit) → tas m de ferraille

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

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

scrapheap

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

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