orphan site

1. 1.

   a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup

   Broadertoxic site

Questions about orphan site

What does orphan site mean?

orphan site means "a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup".

Is orphan site a common word?

orphan site is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.