Dumping

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Dumping (pricing policy), a practice of selling in another market at a price which is lower than the price or cost in your home market. Dumping may be without motive or may have such economic purposes as putting rival suppliers out of business.
In computers, saving information or a program to store, often to a separate storage which is usually stored away from the computer.
In medicine, a group of symptoms that occur when food or liquid enters the small intestine too rapidly. These symptoms include cramps, nausea, diarrhea, and dizziness.
In medicine in the United States, patient dumping the practice in which one hospital transfers a patient to another hospital based on that patient's perceived inability to pay. Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act to crack down on patient dumping.
Disposing of waste--littering on a large, more voluminous scale (i. e. throwing a 33-gallon bag of garbage into a creek).<references:Spacek, S. DO MESS WITH IT: A Sociopolitical Study of Littering and the Role of Southern and Nearby States htpp://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/27>
A non-mutual split of a romantic relationship
As described by Harlan Ellison, a practice of some entertainment executives in which a particular film or television series is deliberately ruined or given bad publicity so that it will lose money. According to Ellison, this can be done for a variety of reasons, including taxes and internal politics.