polluter

English

Etymology

From pollute ‎ -er.

Noun

polluter (plural polluters)

1. A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
   • 1877, E. W. H. Holdsworth, Sea Fisheries, London: Edward Stanford, page 235:

     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.

   • 1993 June 21, “EPA getting stuck paying millions”, in The Argus-Press, Owosso, Michigan:

     The Environmental Protection Agency said it gets stuck with the bills because it often can't locate polluters or they are out of business or bankrupt.

   • 2008 July 9, Robert Winnett, Urmee Khan, quoting George W. Bush, “President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'”, in The Telegraph:

     Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

Derived terms

• polluter pays principle
• self-polluter

 

Translations

subject that pollutes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 污染者 (wūrǎnzhě)

• Czech: znečišťovatel m
• Finnish: saastuttaja (fi)
• French: pollueur (fr) m, pollueuse (fr) f
• German: Umweltverschmutzer m, Umweltverschmutzerin f, (colloquial) Umweltsünder (de) m, Umweltsünderin (de) f
• Italian: inquinatore m, inquinatrice f
• Macedonian: загадувач m (zagaduvač)
• Portuguese: poluidor m
• Russian: загрязни́тель (ru) m (zagrjaznítelʹ)
• Spanish: contaminador (es) m, contaminadora (es) f
• Swedish: förorenare c
• Ukrainian: забру́днювач m (zabrúdnjuvač)

References

• “polluter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “polluter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.