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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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"
[syn: Superfund program, Superfund]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Superfund n 1: 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" [syn: Superfund program, Superfund]