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New2grammar

#540947 Sun, 13 Jul 08 11:28 PM

What do you call an area of an ocean while has been filled with earth for land expansion? landfill?

Thanks.

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nona the brit

#540959 Mon, 14 Jul 08 12:17 AM

No. landfill suggests a place where rubbish is buried.

You mean 'reclaimed land' (google land reclamation)

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The name says it all.

Tanit

#541554 Mon, 14 Jul 08 10:46 PM

Hi,

There's also "polder", which is not an English word (it comes from Dutch) but is quite common in academic texts ... probably because a lot of land was reclaimed in the Netherlands.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=polder

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