scrapyard

English

Alternative forms

• scrap-yard, scrap yard

Etymology

From scrap +‎ yard.

Noun

scrapyard (plural scrapyards)

1. A junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
   • 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67:

     A steady procession of new Class 421 and '423' electric multiple units to the Southern Region from Derby and York allowed the despatch of many pre-nationalisation 2-BIL and 2-HAL units to scrapyards.

Translations

a junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold

Catalan: desballestador m Chinese: Mandarin: 廢料場 / 废料场 (fèiliàochǎng), 垃圾場 / 垃圾场 (zh) (lājīchǎng, lèsèchǎng) Czech: šrotiště n Dutch: sloperij (nl) f French: casse (fr) f German: Schrottplatz (de) m Greek: μάντρα (el) f (mántra) Hungarian: roncstelep (hu) Italian: autodemolitore (it) m Japanese: ゴミ捨て場 (gomisuteba) Polish: szrot (pl) m Portuguese: ferro-velho (pt) Russian: сва́лка (ru) f (sválka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: отпад Roman: otpad (sh) Spanish: chatarrería (es) f, cementerio (es) m Swedish: skrotupplag n Turkish: hurdalık (tr), hurdacı (tr)