borrow pit

borrow pit

n

(Civil Engineering) civil engineering an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere

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borrow pit - a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site cavity, pit - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"

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