| 1. | to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here. |
| 2. | to empty out, as from a container, by tilting or overturning. |
| 3. | to unload or empty out (a container), as by tilting or overturning. |
| 4. | to be dismissed, fired, or released from a contract: The first baseman was dumped from the team after hitting .210 for the first half of the season. |
| 5. | to transfer or rid oneself of suddenly and irresponsibly: Don't dump your troubles on me! |
| 6. | Boxing Slang.
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| 7. | Commerce.
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| 8. | Computers. to print, display, or record on an output medium (the contents of a computer's internal storage or the contents of a file), often at the time a program fails. |
| 9. | Slang. to kill; murder: threats to dump him if he didn't pay up. |
| 10. | to fall or drop down suddenly. |
| 11. | to throw away or discard garbage, refuse, etc. |
| 12. | Commerce.
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| 13. | to release contents: a sewage pipe that dumps in the ocean. |
| 14. | Slang. to complain, criticize, gossip, or tell another person one's problems: He calls me up just to dump. |
| 15. | Slang: Vulgar. to defecate. |
| 16. | an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc. |
| 17. | Also called dumpsite, dumping-ground. a place where garbage, refuse, etc., is deposited. |
| 18. | Military.
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| 19. | the act of dumping. |
| 20. | Mining.
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| 21. | Informal. a place, house, or town that is dilapidated, dirty, or disreputable. |
| 22. | (in merchandising) a bin or specially made carton in which items are displayed for sale: Fifty copies of the best-selling paperback novel were in a dump near the checkout counter. |
| 23. | Computers. a copy of the contents of a computer's internal storage or of the contents of a file at a given instant, that is printed, displayed, or stored on an output medium. |
| 24. | dump on (someone), Informal.
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The sale of goods of one nation in the markets of a second nation at less than the price charged within the first nation. Dumping can eliminate competitors by undercutting their prices.
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Dumping
1. In international trade, this occurs when one country exports a significant amount of goods to another country at prices much lower than in the domestic market.
2. A slang term for selling a stock with little regard for price.
Investopedia Commentary
1. Dumping is fought through the use of tariffs and quotas.
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See also: Export, Protectionism, Quota, Tariff, World Trade Organization - WTO
dumping
The selling of large amounts of a stock or stocks in general at whatever market prices are in effect. For example, investors might dump stocks upon hearing of an outbreak of fighting in some part of the world.
The selling of a product in one market at an unusually low price while selling the same product at a significantly higher price in another market. For example, a firm may sell a product in its home market at a price covering all costs and then sell the product in a foreign market at a significantly lower price covering only variable costs.