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1. Selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market

1. Throw away as refuse
   "No dumping in these woods!"
    
2. [informal] Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
   "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man";
   - ditch [informal], chuck [Brit, informal]
    
3. [informal] Sell at artificially low prices
   - underprice
    
4. Drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
   "The truck dumped the garbage in the street"
    
5. Fall abruptly
   "It dumped to the bottom of the well";
   - plunge
    
6. Knock down with force
   "He dumped his opponent";
   - deck [informal], coldcock [N. Amer, informal], knock down, floor
    
7. (computing) copy data from memory to disk, or from one storage device to another esp. for backup

Derived forms: dumpings

See also: strike hard

Type of: beat, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, drop, fling, flog [Brit, informal], get rid of, marketing, merchandising, put away, remove, sell, selling, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out

Encyclopedia: Dumping