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单词 polluter
释义
polluterpol‧lut‧er /pəˈluːtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • All others should be brought up to modern standards using the principle that the polluter pays.
  • He typically determines the nature and level of the demands to be made of a polluter.
  • In the South-West, 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000, mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry.
  • Increasingly, the courts search for past polluters and pass the bill to them.
  • The defence and energy departments, impervious to markets, are among the country's biggest polluters.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency could not collect an average of $ 8 million a day in fines and Superfund settlements against polluters.
  • The secretive negotiations between administrators and polluters meant there was no public accountability.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a list of Canada’s worst polluters
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The defence and energy departments, impervious to markets, are among the country's biggest polluters.
· The water authorities thus not only set and enforce pollution standards, they are major polluters themselves.
VERB
· If the source can not be discovered, how can the polluter be forced to pay?· Ideally, polluters would pay the true costs of the degradation they cause.· This stipulates that a polluter should pay for the repair of environmental damage.· Both approaches can be justified on the principle that the polluter should pay.
a person or organization that causes pollution:  The polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up.big/major/main etc polluter a list of Canada’s worst polluters
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