toxic waste area

1. 1.

   a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up

   Synonymstoxic siteSuperfund site

   Broadersite

   Narrowerorphan site

Questions about toxic waste area

What does toxic waste area mean?

toxic waste area means "a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up".

What is another word for toxic waste area?

Close synonyms include toxic site, Superfund site. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is toxic waste area a common word?

toxic waste area 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.