dumping

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dump/dʌmp/

▶noun

• 1 a site for depositing rubbish or waste.

  ■ a heap of rubbish left at a dump.

  ■ informal an unpleasant or dreary place.

• 2 Computing an act of dumping stored data.

• 3 informal an act of defecation.

▶verb

• 1 deposit or dispose of (rubbish or something unwanted).

  ■ put down firmly and carelessly.

  ■ informal desert (someone).

  ■ send (goods unsaleable in the home market) to a foreign market for sale at a low price.

• 2 Computing copy (stored data) to a different location, especially so as to protect against loss.

  ■ print out the contents of (a store).

• 3 (dump on) N. Amer. informal treat badly or criticize harshly.

– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘fall suddenly’): in later use partly imitative; cf. thump.