Polluter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment wordnet

Synonyms

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defiler

Example

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"The biggest climate polluter is the global power sector."

Etymology

From pollute + -er.

Related phrases

polluter pays principleself-polluter

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