( marketing ) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

Talk about creating money out of nothing-the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.

2002, Paul Swan, Maths Investigations, page 66, Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the вЂholey dollarвЂ™ (worth five shillings) and the вЂ dumpвЂ™ (worth one shilling and threepence).

( historical, Australia, Canada ) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 5, O, play me some merry dump to comfort me. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene 2, Tune a deploring dump

( obsolete ) A melancholy strain or tune in music any tune.

The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company, where they should bear a part of the conversation, is a sufficient argument that it is a fault in the conduct of our understanding, not to have that power over it as to make use of it to those purposes, and on those occasions, wherein we have need of its assistance. Williams, 1825, Section 45, p.В 125, They see not what passes before their eyes hear not the audible discourse of the company and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote region.

1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Boston: R.P.

1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Part 2, Canto I, p.В 228, March slowly on in solemn dump.

Clarke, 1743, p.В 26, I was musing in the midst of my dumps

1679, John Bunyan, The PilgrimвЂ™s Progress, London: J.

1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 5, doleful dumps the mind oppress

( usually in the plural ) A sad, gloomy state of the mind sadness melancholy despondency.

( vulgar, slang, often with the verb 'take', euphemistic ) An act of defecation a defecating.

An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

( computing ) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.( computing ) An act of dumping, or its result.That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way a mess.A place where waste or garbage is left a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa ( вЂњ to thump вЂќ ) (whence Danish dumpe ( вЂњ to fall suddenly вЂќ )).

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