What is the meaning of superfund?

noun

  • The federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
    • usage: "some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund"
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