TOXIC WASTE AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toxic waste area mean? 

• TOXIC WASTE AREA (noun)
  The noun TOXIC WASTE AREA has 1 sense:

1. a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up

  Familiarity information: TOXIC WASTE AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOXIC WASTE AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Superfund site; toxic site; toxic waste area

Hypernyms ("toxic waste area" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "toxic waste area"):

orphan site (a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup)