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What is a scrapheap?

What is a scrapheap? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pile in which junk is discarded.
  2. A junkyard.
  3. (figuratively) A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas.
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If the closures go ahead, hundreds more coal mineworkers and their families in hard hit regions will be thrown on the industrial scrapheap.
It has always seemed wrong to me that someone reaches a certain age and is then thrown on the scrapheap.
The new owners did not realise the importance of the statue which was covered in dust and was destined for the scrapheap.
We watched the lot to determine which would be the next Transparent and which would be consigned to the digital scrapheap.
We are at no analytical loss with the upcoming relegation of the report to the government data scrapheap.
Why didn't NATO follow the Warsaw Pact onto the scrapheap of history after the end of the Cold War?

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