book dumping

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The practice of donating old used books that burden rather than assist communities. idiomatic,uncountable
    — ...there is some sensitivity in Africa to being the recipient of the West's unwanted or secondhand surplus goods, and sometimes well-intentioned gifts of educational materials have been criticized by their recipients as examples of "book dumping" - equivalent, that is, to garbage disposal or to the removal to Africa of European and American toxic wastes.
  2. The discarding of quantities of books. uncountable
    — Since January, the book-dumping has ceased, following an expose by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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