"wreck yard" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: wreck yards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wreck yard (plural wreck yards)
  1. The location of a dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought. Their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal, are sold to recycling companies. Synonyms (dismantling location): boneyard, breaker's yard, junkyard, salvage yard, scrapyard, scrapheap, wrecking yard, wrecker's yard Translations (location of dismantling business): desballestador [masculine] (Catalan), vrakoviště [neuter] (Czech), aŭtovrakejo (Esperanto), hajottamo (Finnish), romuttamo (Finnish), autopurkamo (Finnish), cour à scrap [Quebec, feminine, informal] (French), casse automobile [feminine] (French), Schrottplatz [masculine] (German), cmentarzysko [neuter] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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      "word": "boneyard"
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    {
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      "word": "junkyard"
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      "word": "scrapyard"
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      "sense": "dismantling location",
      "word": "scrapheap"
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      "word": "vrakoviště"
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      "sense": "location of dismantling business",
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      "sense": "location of dismantling business",
      "word": "autopurkamo"
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      "word": "cour à scrap"
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      "sense": "location of dismantling business",
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      "word": "casse automobile"
    },
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      "sense": "location of dismantling business",
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      "word": "Schrottplatz"
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