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scrapping

noun

  1. act/process of discarding, throwing away, dismantling for scraps
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. The act by which something is scrapped.

    The number of ship scrappings over the past five years has declined appreciably on an annual basis since the mid-1980s which was a period of intense shipbreaking activity.

    Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood.

verb

  1. Misspelling of scraping.