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SUPERFUND PROGRAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
Example:
some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund
Synonyms:
Superfund; Superfund program
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Superfund program" is a kind of...):
program; programme (a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need)