DUMPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dumping mean? 

• DUMPING (noun)
  The noun DUMPING has 1 sense:

1. selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market

  Familiarity information: DUMPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUMPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dumping" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Derivation:

dump (sell at artificially low prices)

 Context examples 

Dumping syndrome sometimes occurs in people who have had part or all of their stomach removed.

(Dumping syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

If you and I sat down 15 years ago and thought about, 'I wonder how dumping enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will affect our well-being,'

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

This was done by dumping them into a spinning receptacle that went at a rate of a few thousand revolutions a minute, tearing the water from the clothes by centrifugal force.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Jack Connerney published a paper that linked those narrow dark bands to the shape of Saturn’s enormous magnetic field, proposing that electrically charged ice particles from Saturn’s rings were flowing down invisible magnetic field lines, dumping water in Saturn’s upper atmosphere where these lines emerged from the planet.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

Clinical signs may be seen 30-60 minutes after eating (early dumping): cramping, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea or they may be seen 1-3 hours later as a result of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (late dumping): sweating, dizziness, confusion and heart palpitations.

(Dumping syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)