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superfund

[ soo-per-fuhnd ]

noun

, (sometimes initial capital letter)
  1. a large fund set up to finance an expensive program or project.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of superfund1

First recorded in 1980–85; super- + fund

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Example Sentences

The facility, which ran from 1952 until it was closed down in 1989, is now a superfund site.

Superfund sites often produced lengthy litigation processes to determine liability, which stalled cleanup projects.

Additionally, his Superfund law has led to the cleanup of dozens of toxic waste sites throughout the country.

They can just steal the wealth and walk away, leaving a Superfund site behind them, and no one is liable.

To figure it out, we examined all available Superfund data from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The site became a Superfund in 1983 and since then some of the largest sources of contamination to the creek have been identified.

Above those, however, are the Superfund sites—places that have sustained major, long-term damage, necessitating years of cleanup.

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