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landfills

landfills is the plural of landfill.

landfills is the third-person singular simple present indicative of landfill.

Meaning of landfill

Noun

landfill (countable and uncountable, plural landfills)

  1. (countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
    • A heart that's full up like a landfill / A job that slowly kills you1997, “No Surprises”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead
  2. (uncountable) Such material that is disposed.
    • If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

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Questions about landfills

What is landfills the plural of?
Landfills is the plural of landfill.

Words near landfills in the dictionary

  1. landfill sites
  2. landfillable
  3. landfillcore
  4. landfilled
  5. landfilling
  6. landfills
  7. landfish
  8. landfishes
  9. landflood
  10. landfloods
  11. landfolk

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