Definition of superfund in US English:
superfund
nounˈso͞opərˌfəndˈso͞opərˌfənd
US 1A fund established to finance a long-term, expensive project.
Example sentencesExamples
- Union superfunds are becoming increasingly powerful with the great amount of money in there and they should see themselves as now having genuine financial clout.
- The type of person who works really well with a self-managed superfund is a person who has invested in their own name already.
- Rogue corporations that wilfully break the law will have their charters revoked, their assets sold and the money funnelled into superfunds for their victims.
- 1.1Superfund A US federal government program designed to fund the cleanup of toxic wastes.
billions have been spent on Superfund since 1980
Example sentencesExamples
- It was the first time I had ever knowingly launched just downstream from a Superfund site.
- So he was shocked to learn that the pollutants collecting inside his body sounded much like a Superfund cleanup site: pesticides, flame retardants and other nasty, man-made chemicals turned up in a recent test.
- As a result, the United States Environmental Protection Agency declared the entire length of the Hudson River downstream from these plants to be a Superfund Site.
- The harbor, a Superfund site, has been a dumping ground for numerous toxic facilities and industrial activities.
- But the bay shoreline must contend with one of the world's largest ports, a Superfund landfill, a nuclear-power plant, and speeding boaters who put slow-moving manatees at risk.