SUPERFUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Superfund mean? 

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

1. the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERFUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Superfund; Superfund program

Context example:

some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund

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

program; programme (a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need)

 Context examples 

The researchers studied liver function in mice following long-term exposure to carbon tetrachloride, a chemical commonly associated with Superfund sites.

(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)

The research was conducted by the Brown University Superfund Research Center, Providence, Rhode Island.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

We set out imagining that graphene film would act as a mechanical barrier but after observing the mosquitos’ behavior, we began to suspect they were not interested in biting, said Robert Hurt, Ph.D., director of the Superfund Research Program at Brown University.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

These findings could lead to new protective methods against mosquitos, without the environmental or human health effects of other chemical-based repellants, said Heather Henry, Ph.D., a health scientist administrator with the NIEHS Superfund Research Program.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)