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polluter

noun

Etymology

From pollute + -er.

  1. derived from pollūtum
  2. inherited from polluten
  3. formed as polluter — “pollute + -er”

Definitions

  1. A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.

    • During the last session of Parliament a Rivers' Pollution Prevention Act was passed, after it had been carefully divested of most of the provisions which could make it objectionable to polluters.
    • The Environmental Protection Agency said it gets stuck with the bills because it often can't locate polluters or they are out of business or bankrupt.
    • Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA