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  • adjective same as cast-off. Contrasted with kept, retained, and saved.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of junk.

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Examples

  • Locker forecasts that demand a decade from now will have absorbed much of the so-called obsolete scrap; that is, the junked steel products yet to be processed.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Locker forecasts that demand a decade from now will have absorbed much of the so-called obsolete scrap; that is, the junked steel products yet to be processed.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Locker forecasts that demand a decade from now will have absorbed much of the so-called obsolete scrap; that is, the junked steel products yet to be processed.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2009

  • You had to do them, had to sell them, which kind of junked the brand.

    Get Briefed: William Clay Ford Jr. 2010

  • You had to do them, had to sell them, which kind of junked the brand.

    Transcript: Bill Ford 2010

  • You had to do them, had to sell them, which kind of junked the brand.

    Transcript: Bill Ford 2010

  • You had to do them, had to sell them, which kind of junked the brand.

    Get Briefed: William Clay Ford Jr. 2010

  • In the memo, written last autumn but leaked to a newspaper in early August, Blair criticizes the "hubris and vacuity" of the Labour conference, and complains that Brown "junked" the Blair "policy agenda but had nothing to put in its place."

    ‘He Goes Or The Party Dies’ 2008

  • During the winter the felled trees were sometimes cut for firewood, and those remaining in the spring were "junked," as it was called, and rolled into immense piles and burned, after which a crop of rye or wheat was sown, and hacked in with hoes, the roots of the trees preventing the movement of the harrow.

    The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Various

  • But he claimed Tory plans for rapid spending cuts, inheritance tax cuts and tax breaks for married couples showed David Cameron had 'junked' change in favour of the same agenda followed by his predecessors Michael Howard and William Hague.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

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