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  • verb Present participle of dump.
  • noun the disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value
  • noun selling goods at less than their normal price, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly

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  • noun selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market

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Examples

  • This ailment earned the title dumping syndrome, and suffering patients would feel nauseated, clammy, and sweaty.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • This ailment earned the title dumping syndrome, and suffering patients would feel nauseated, clammy, and sweaty.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • This ailment earned the title dumping syndrome, and suffering patients would feel nauseated, clammy, and sweaty.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • Announcing a campaign to boost the local manufacturing industry, the body objected to what it called the dumping of inferior foreign products on South African markets.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The thing is that now, with the monopoly price of oil, with the depressed prices of sugar in what we call the dumping ground of the international market, to buy one ton of oil today you almost need one ton of sugar.

    Castro Speech at Pioneer Congress Reported 1991

  • Specter, who is in a tough primary race in the Rust Belt state of Pennsylvania, said Chinese subsidies and what he called dumping are "a form of international banditry."

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Domestic "dumping" is predatory pricing, an RPA offese.

    Time to Dump "Dumping"?, Michael Munger | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I have tried to talk to him and he keeps telling me that his pile will eventually turn into mulch and therefore the dumping is justified.

    Ajijic Limpo 2009

  • And, finally, this may seem odd to hear, but the person we believe is Barack Obama's biggest obstacle in dumping the Chicago Way is his own wife, Michelle Obama, who has interlaced her adult life around it and worked directly for Daley's Chicago Way.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • We altered Chevron's "We Agree" ads ever-so-slightly to highlight the company's greenwashing efforts as well as its role in dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic oil pollution in the Ecuadorean Amazon.

    Rebecca Tarbotton: Does Chevron Think We're All Stupid? Rebecca Tarbotton 2010

  • Many of these terms do have early, important roots in psychotherapy – the word “triggered”, for example, was first used by psychologists as a way to describe those who were suffering from PTSD after the first world war, while the term “trauma-dumping” was widely popularised by psychotherapist Janina Fisher in her 2017 book Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors.

    Are Jonah Hill's texts really 'therapy speak'? I asked a therapist | Daisy Jones Daisy Jones 2023

  • So-called granny dumping – where families unable to afford or cope with their caring responsibilities offload elderly relatives on to hospitals – is not uncommon in the US.

    ‘It was morally wrong’: the plot to abandon a man 5,000 miles from home Tom Wall 2019

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  • Though he won't admit it publicly, gangerh might like dumping. Small ones.

    January 11, 2010