SUPERFUND

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Example:

some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund

Synonyms:

Superfund; Superfund program

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Superfund" is a kind of...):

program; programme (a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need)

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