Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who pollutes or profanes; a defiler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who pollutes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A subject that
pollutes , be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment
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Examples
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Lyndsey Layton, of The Washington Post: The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose 'imminent and substantial' dangers to public health and the environment.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Lyndsey Layton, of The Washington Post: The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose 'imminent and substantial' dangers to public health and the environment.
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I was reading a bit over at the Financial Times about a global warming conference Bush summoned with all of the other big polluters (side note: in German the word for polluter is umweltverschmutzer, which amounts literally to something like earth dirty maker).
Archive 2007-09-01 xtra 2007
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What "balance" means to a polluter is that each time they ask, they take half.
Bad for bidness? David 2007
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I was reading a bit over at the Financial Times about a global warming conference Bush summoned with all of the other big polluters (side note: in German the word for polluter is umweltverschmutzer, which amounts literally to something like earth dirty maker).
Pipe Dream xtra 2007
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Most dislike them due to pollution, which isn't a small consideration given that the state's most prolific water polluter is a hog megafarm in the Western part of the state.
Mitch to Farmers: Suck It Cass Dems 2005
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Most dislike them due to pollution, which isn't a small consideration given that the state's most prolific water polluter is a hog megafarm in the Western part of the state.
Archive 2005-10-01 Cass Dems 2005
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"The upshot is that the polluter is allowed to keep on polluting."
John Feffer: Midterm Miscarriage John Feffer 2010
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“Economic output” that pollutes the water imposes a cost that, in any reasonable economic system, the polluter should be accountable for.
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“Economic output” that pollutes the water imposes a cost that, in any reasonable economic system, the polluter should be accountable for.
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