Superfund

Definitions of Superfund
  1. noun
    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
    “some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund”
    synonyms: Superfund program
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    type of:
    program, programme
    a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
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