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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
scrap + yard
Noun
scrapyard (plural scrapyards)
- A junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67:A steady procession of new Class 421 and '423' electric multiple units to the Southern Region from Derby and York allowed the despatch of many pre-nationalisation 2-BIL and 2-HAL units to scrapyards.
Translations
a junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold