"dumping ground" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A landfill."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, page 210",
          "text": "The Indian representative of a global trade union called IndustriALL warned that other clothes and accessories shipped overseas might also be radioactive because India has become a \"dumping ground\" for the West's hazardous waste.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2021 June 16, “Network News: Boost for Stanton Gate revival”, in RAIL, number 933, page 14",
          "text": "Around 25 years ago, it was used as a dumping ground for Toton locomotives destined for scrapyards.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Any place where unwanted items are sent."
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        "(figurative) Any place where unwanted items are sent."
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          "ref": "2008 December, Mark W. Chase et al., “Taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae to accord with Genera Orchidacearum, Vol. 5”, in Lindleyana",
          "text": "Several genera, e.g. Miltonia Lindl., Odontoglossum Kunth and Oncidium Sw., have historically been viewed as taxa of convenience and thus became dumping grounds for species of unclear relationships.",
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        "(taxonomy) A presumably polyphyletic supraspecific taxon where species of unclear affinities are placed."
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          "word": "wastebasket taxon"
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  "word": "dumping ground"
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        "A landfill."
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          "ref": "2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, page 210",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 June 16, “Network News: Boost for Stanton Gate revival”, in RAIL, number 933, page 14",
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        "Any place where unwanted items are sent."
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        "(figurative) Any place where unwanted items are sent."
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