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dumper
noun
A small one-man diesel-powered vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites.
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ALL the routes to the headquarters of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, were blocked on September 24th and 25th by dozens of identical dumper trucks, the kind normally used to spread salted gravel on unpassable winter roads.
The sea, the last part of the world where man acts as a hunter-gatherer as well as bathunter-gatherer as and general polluter—needs management, just as the land does.
A COUNCIL worker loads sorted paper and cardboard from an "eco-emplacement" into a green dumper truck.
Scrapers and dumper trucks with oversize pneumatic tires for fast travel over rough ground readily dispose of excavated materials to form embankments or other fill.
Record companies, in contrast, are in the dumper.
Tons of expats to carouse with about how the old country has "gone down the dumper".
Contemporary art will be inside the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim a few hundred yards away, still just a sand-pile of dumper trucks and bobbing labourers' hats.
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The mayo-dumper is being investigated for earlier book vandalism incidents involving ketchup and corn syrup, as well as other "condiment-related crimes".
The seventh of director Adeyemi "Love" Afolayan's 25 children, he remembers when post-independence Nigeria had a proper cinema-going culture, before the economic model collapsed and was replaced in the 1990s by Nollywood's dumper-truck supply of infidelity and witchcraft potboilers shot on video.
Damien Hirst was bad enough, the poo-dumper seemed to say, but Ofili's dung was the last straw.
Malcolm Dumper, who runs the Association of Electoral Administrators, says that the potential for fraud has been reduced but not eliminated.These flaws in the system are unlikely to have a measurable effect on the outcome of the election but they will tarnish it.
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