scrap
/skræp/ n [U] (MATERIALS)Definition
› old or used material, esp. metal, that has been collected in one place, often in order to be treated so that it can be used again: He was charged with stealing copper tubing, which he then sold as scrap metal.
(Definition of scrap n (MATERIALS) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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