Definition of Dumping

1. Noun. Selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market.

Generic synonyms: Marketing, Merchandising, Selling
Derivative terms: Dump

Definition of Dumping

1. Verb. (present participle of dump) ¹

2. Noun. the disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value ¹

3. Noun. selling goods at less than their normal price, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dumping

1. the selling of large quantities of goods at below the market price [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumping

dumpbins
dumpcart
dumpcarts
dumped
dumped one's load
dumpee
dumpees
dumper
dumpers
dumpier
dumpies
dumpiest
dumpily
dumpiness
dumpinesses
dumping (current term)
dumping one's load
dumping syndrome
dumpings
dumpish
dumple
dumpled
dumples
dumpling
dumplings
dumplingy
dumps
dumps one's load
dumpsite

Literary usage of Dumping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commercial Policy in War Time and After: A Study of the Application of by William Smith Culbertson (1919)
"The great majority of cases described as dumping are merely cases of severe ... Foreign manufacturers may not be guilty of dumping even though they are ..."

2. Handbook on American Mining Law by George Purcell Costigan (1908)
"dumping GROUND FOR TUNNEL SITES. 64. A reasonable amount of surface ground around the month of the tunnel la always claimed for dumping purposes by the ..."

3. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"dumping MACHINERY.—dumping machinery proper is confined to buckets, dumping boards, and cars. New systems of automatic dumping may be introduced with deep ..."

4. State Sanitation: A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of by George Chandler Whipple (1917)
"1904 dumping of Garbage and Rubbish in the Harbors and along the Sea Coast ... 3-5 This report considers the general subject of dumping of refuse into the ..."

5. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"dumping MACHINERY.—dumping machinery proper is confined to buckets, dumping boards, and cars. New systems of automatic dumping may be introduced with deep ..."

6. American Foreign Trade: As Promoted by the Webb-Pomerene and Edge Acts, with by William Frederick Notz, Richard Selden Harvey (1921)
"dumping OF AMERICAN GOODS ON FOREIGN MARKETS. One of the principal charges made in foreign countries against American "trusts" is that they practice what is ..."

7. International Trade: An Application of Economic Theory by John Atkinson Hobson (1904)
"Seeing that the costs, alike of dumping and protection, fall in the main on expenses of ... but their own as well, even the dumping which is part of it; ..."

8. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1912)
"I. dumping WASTE WITH A LOCOMOTIVE TRAIN. By AB Foote. E. & MJ, vol. ... I. See also DUMPS, CRADLE, TIPPLES, Etc. Self-dumping Cages See first volume of ..."

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