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noun
- 1. a place where scrap is collected before being recycled or discarded. British
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SCRAPYARD definition: 1. a place where old vehicles and machines are collected and either sold or prepared for being used…. Learn more.
The meaning of SCRAPYARD is a place for receiving or handling scrap : junkyard; broadly : scrap heap. How to use scrapyard in a sentence.
SCRAPYARD meaning: 1. a place where old vehicles and machines are collected and either sold or prepared for being used…. Learn more.
A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish, British and New Zealand English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as ...
A scrapyard is a place where old machines such as cars or ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved.
Definition of scrapyard noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define scrapyard. scrapyard synonyms, scrapyard pronunciation, scrapyard translation, English dictionary definition of scrapyard. n Brit a place where old machines such as cars and ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved Collins English Dictionary – Complete and...
scrapyard (plural scrapyards) A junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
The earliest known use of the noun scrapyard is in the 1960s. OED's earliest evidence for scrapyard is from 1963, in the Times (London). scrapyard is formed within English, by compounding.
Scrapyard definition: a business with a large space, including outdoor space, to store items or parts purchased from customers for resale as raw material. See examples of SCRAPYARD used in a sentence.
