Meanings
plural polluters
- A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.
2008 July 9, Robert Winnett, Urmee Khan, quoting George W. Bush, “President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'”, in The Telegraph2 more examples
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.
1877, E. W. H. Holdsworth, Sea Fisheries, London: Edward Stanford, page 235The 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.
1993 June 21, “EPA getting stuck paying millions”, in The Argus-Press, Owosso, Michigan
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna person or organization that causes pollution of the environment
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 污染者
- 污染者 (wūrǎnzhě)subject that pollutes
Czech znečišťovatel
- znečišťovatelsubject that pollutes
Finnish saastuttaja
- saastuttajasubject that pollutes
French pollueur, pollueuse
- pollueursubject that pollutes
- pollueusesubject that pollutes
German Umweltverschmutzer, Umweltverschmutzerin
- Umweltverschmutzersubject that pollutes
- Umweltverschmutzerinsubject that pollutes
- Umweltsündersubject that pollutes
- Umweltsünderinsubject that pollutes
Italian inquinatore, inquinatrice
- inquinatoresubject that pollutes
- inquinatricesubject that pollutes
Japanese 汚染者
- 汚染者 (osensha)subject that pollutes
Portuguese poluidor
- poluidorsubject that pollutes
Russian загрязни́тель
- загрязни́тель (zagrjaznítelʹ)subject that pollutes
Spanish contaminador, contaminadora
- contaminadorsubject that pollutes
- contaminadorasubject that pollutes
Swedish förorenare
- förorenaresubject that pollutes
Ukrainian забру́днювач
- забру́днювач (zabrúdnjuvač)subject that pollutes
Cite this entry
polluter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polluter
“polluter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polluter. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “polluter,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polluter.
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