SUPERFUND PROGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Superfund program mean? 

• SUPERFUND PROGRAM (noun)
  The noun SUPERFUND PROGRAM 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 PROGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERFUND PROGRAM (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 program" is a kind of...):

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