landfill

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Etymology

From land +‎ fill. Compare spillway.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.fɪl/, /ˈlæn.fɪl/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

landfill (third-person singular simple present landfills, present participle landfilling, simple past and past participle landfilled)

1. (transitive) To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.

Derived terms

• antilandfill
• landfillable
• landfill of history

Translations

to dispose of waste

Chinese: Mandarin: 填埋 (zh) (tiánmái) Czech: skládka (cs) f Finnish: viedä kaatopaikalle, loppusijoittaa kaatopaikalle German: deponieren (de), ablagern (de) Italian: scaricare (it) f, sversare Portuguese: aterrar (pt) Slovak: skládkovať Spanish: depositar (es), enterrar (es) Welsh: claddu sbwriel

Noun

landfill (countable and uncountable, plural landfills)

1. (countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
   • 2025 February 19, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 71:

     A staff uniform recycling scheme at Govia Thameslink Railway has prevented the emission of 2,400kg of greenhouse gases. Some 620 sackloads of GTR clothing has been recycled in the past year through an advanced process called material reclamation - giving textiles a second chance instead of going to landfill.

2. (uncountable) Such material that is disposed.
   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

     If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

Derived terms

• landfill indie
• landfill site

Translations

site at which refuse is buried

Arabic: مَرْدَم m (mardam) Basque: zabortegi Catalan: abocador (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 堆填區 / 堆填区 (deoi1 tin4 keoi1), 垃圾堆填區 / 垃圾堆填区 (laap6 saap3 deoi1 tin4 keoi1) Mandarin: 填埋地 (zh) (tiánmáidì), 垃圾場 / 垃圾场 (zh) (lājīchǎng) Czech: skládka (cs) f Finnish: kaatopaikka (fi) French: décharge (fr) f, dépotoir (fr) m Georgian: ნაგავსაყრელი (nagavsaq̇reli) German: Deponie (de) f, (garbage) Mülldeponie (de) f, Müllhalde (de) f, Müllabladeplatz (de) m Greek: χωματερή (el) f (chomaterí) Hungarian: szeméttelep (hu) Indonesian: tempat pembuangan akhir, TPA (initialism), tempat pembuangan sampah Irish: láithreán líonadh talún m Italian: discarica (it) f Khmer: ទីលានចាក់សម្រាម (tii liən cak sɑmraam) Macedonian: депо́нија f (depónija) (garbage) Malay: tapak pelupusan sampah Navajo: tsʼiilzéí nehegeehédi Norwegian: Bokmål: fyllplass m Nynorsk: fyllplass m Plautdietsch: Schuntaka m Polish: wysypisko (pl) n Portuguese: lixão m, aterro sanitário (pt) m Russian: сва́лка (ru) f (sválka) мусора (ru) m (musora), полиго́н (ru) m (poligón) для (ru) (dlja) захоронения (ru) n (zaxoronenija) отходов (ru) pl (otxodov) Slovak: skládka odpadu Spanish: vertedero m, tiradero m, relleno sanitario m, basural m, basurero (es) m, dompe m (United States) Swedish: soptipp (sv) c Tagalog: tambakan ng basura Turkish: çöplük (tr) Ukrainian: сміттєзвалище n (smittjezvalyšče) Welsh: claddfa sbwriel f Yiddish: מיסטבאַרג m (mistbarg)

material so disposed of

Chinese: Mandarin: 填埋的垃圾 (tiánmái de lājī) Czech: odpad (cs) m Finnish: kaatopaikkajäte French: détritus (fr) m, déchet (fr) m German: Müll (de) m Irish: líonadh talún m

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French: (please verify) décharge (fr) f