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sump tanks

sump tanks is the plural of sump tank.

Meaning of sump tank

Noun

sump tank (plural sump tanks)

  1. A tank containing the liquid removed by a drainage system.
    • The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

Questions about sump tanks

What is sump tanks the plural of?
Sump tanks is the plural of sump tank.

Words near sump tanks in the dictionary

  1. sump pit
  2. sump pits
  3. sump pump
  4. sump pumps
  5. sump tank
  6. sump tanks
  7. sump up
  8. sumpah
  9. sumped
  10. sumph
  11. sumphish

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