| 单词 | toxic waste |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoxic waste toxic waste n. (a) waste, esp. industrial waste, that is hazardous to human health or the environment and which requires special facilities for its disposal; also occasionally as a count noun; (b) Finance colloquial extremely risky or poorly rated securities. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > types of redeemables1720 government bond1737 corporate bond1810 trustee security1859 international1863 foreigners1883 most active list1885 gilt-edge1900 actual1908 heavies1922 toxic waste1922 gilt-edged1930 prior charge1930 short1932 gilt1936 performer1939 tap1948 energy security1960 fallen angel1963 medium1968 physicals1974 underperformer1975 taplet1982 1922 Progr. in Biol. Enq. (U.S. Dept. Comm., Bureau of Fisheries) 23 Little evidence was found to indicate that any definite toxic wastes are responsible for the death of fishes in the streams studied. 1948 Sewage Wks. Jrnl. 20 246/2 The condition is being corrected through bypassing the toxic waste into Lake Michigan without treatment. 1987 Barron's 16 Mar. 90/4 The sovereign-debt (some call it ‘toxic waste’, or worst [sic] than junk bonds) market evolved soon after U.S. regulators began meeting in November 1983 to determine just what debt should be written down. 2006 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 5/2 Computers, televisions, video recorders and other electrical gadgets are classified as toxic waste and cannot be dumped in landfill sites. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Jan. a23/1 A compromise approach: moving toxic waste from private banks' balance sheets to a publicly owned..‘aggregator bank’. < as lemmas |
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