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dumping

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  1. The sale of goods of one nation in the markets of a second nation at less than the price charged within the first nation. Dumping can eliminate competitors by undercutting their prices.

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For years, drivers on the valley’s highways have seen their signs and billboards with slogans such as “Stop Dumping Our Farm Water & Jobs In the Ocean.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

Dumping is selling excess product in another country for a very cheap price price and can often decimate the local industry's own market of that product.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024

I wrote Dumping in Dixie in 1989, but it took me a year to get that book printed.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

"Dumping rubble in the city, olive groves and stream beds without decomposing and recycling it causes new environmental disasters," said Gokhan Gunaydin, of the opposition CHP party.

From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023

Dumping a perfume bottle on her hair, she resembled a drowned sheep dog.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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