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Superfund

su·per·fund

US/ˌsupɜrˈfʌnd/ uncommon uk us

noun

1.

the federal government''s program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationawide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency

  • “some have intimated that the Superfund”

Origin

From super- + fund.

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