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scrap yard

scrap yard is the alternative spelling of scrapyard.

Meaning of scrapyard

Noun

scrapyard (plural scrapyards)

  1. A junkyard; a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
    • A steady procession of new Class 421 and '423' electric multiple units to the Southern Region from Derby and York allowed the despatch of many pre-nationalisation 2-BIL and 2-HAL units to scrapyards.2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67

Forms of scrap yard

pluralscrap yards

Questions about scrap yard

What is scrap yard the alternative spelling of?
Scrap yard is the alternative spelling of scrapyard.

Words near scrap yard in the dictionary

  1. scrap heap
  2. scrap heaps
  3. scrap merchant
  4. scrap merchants
  5. scrap paper
  6. scrap yard
  7. scrap yards
  8. scrap-heap
  9. scrap-heaps
  10. scrap-yard
  11. scrap-yards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrap yard (page history and authors); scrapyard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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