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Definition of scrapheaps in English English dictionary
- plural of scrapheap
- scrapheap
- A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas
- scrapheap
- {i} garbage dumping site, dump; pile of garbage or trash; pile of discarded metal
- scrapheap
- If you say that someone has been thrown on the scrapheap, you mean that they have been forced to leave their job by an uncaring employer and are unlikely to get other work. Miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no prospects
- scrapheap
- A junkyard
- scrapheap
- Figuratively, a collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas
- scrapheap
- If things such as machines or weapons are thrown on the scrapheap, they are thrown away because they are no longer needed. Thousands of Europe's tanks and guns are going to the scrap heap
- scrapheap
- A pile in which junk is discarded
- scrapheap
- pile of discarded metal
- scrapheap
- an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter