strip-mineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

参考

• Surface mining on Wikipedia.

動詞

strip-mine (三人称単数 現在形 strip-mines, 現在分詞 strip-mining, 過去形および過去分詞形 strip-mined)

1. To mine by creating a strip mine, usually for coal or tar sands.

   The decision to strip-mine was opposed by environmentalists.

   • 1980, United States. Science and Education Administration. Cooperative Research, Minisite preparation for reforestation of strip-mined lands, Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, page 5:

     Since 1945, approximately 4 million acres of land have been strip-mined, of which only 2 million have been revegetated.

2. (figuratively) To use up all the resources of something.
   • 2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     This is what success looks like in the creator economy: A group of friends becomes a cast of characters, strip-mines lives and relationships for content and, in the process, turns into a corporation, with payroll to process and liabilities to consider.

アナグラム

• Petrinism, spirit men

別の表記

• strip-mine, stripmine

名詞

strip mine (複数形 strip mines)

1. A mine where the material above the ore is removed (stripped) to expose it for removal and use.

動詞

strip mine (三人称単数 現在形 strip mines, 現在分詞 strip mining, 過去形および過去分詞形 strip mined)

1. Alternative spelling of strip-mine
   • 1971, Richard Cartwright Austin, Peter Borrelli, The Strip Mining of America: An Analysis of Surface Coal Mining and the Environment, Sierra Club, page 18:

     Estimates of coal which can be strip mined should not be interpreted to mean that this coal can only be strip mined. Strip mining began as a process of recovering coal which was located quite near the surface of the earth or at the "outcrop" on a hillside. But now it is common to strip mine coal which is buried beneath 80 to 150 feet or more of rock, quite enough rock to support the roof of an underground mine.

   • 1978, Lorne G. Everett, Groundwater Quality Monitoring of Western Coal Strip Mining: Identification and Priority Ranking of Potential Pollution Sources, Volume 1, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, page 1:

     Because of its low sulfur content, Western coal is generally preferred over Eastern coal for environmental reasons. As a result, Western coal is being strip mined at unprecedented rates.