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Record 1 1991-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

The purposeful destruction of the natural environment, by such activity as dumping harmful chemicals into the seas, which causes extreme fear; environmental terrorism.

CONT

The Pentagon did not know how much more oil remained in the al-Ahmadi storage tanks that feed into the Sea Island Terminal, but there was frightening evidence that Saddam had more ecoterror in mind.

OBS

This neologism has been formed by derivation. The combining from "eco-," which represents "ecology," "environment," "nature," or "natural habitat" in the word "ecological," has been added to the word "terror."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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