scrapping

Pluralscrappings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of scrap.

   The airline is scrapping its least profitable routes next spring.

   She spends her weekends scrapping, filling albums with photos and ticket stubs.

   Note

   The -ing form does double duty: a participle after be (the airline is scrapping the route) and a gerund that heads its own phrase (scrapping the plan saved money). The doubled p belongs to scrap; scraping, with one p, comes from scrape, so writing scrapping where scraping is meant is a misspelling.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of discarding something, abandoning it, or breaking it up for scrap.

   Ship scrappings rose sharply as freight rates collapsed.

   Union leaders protested the scrapping of the new factory project.

   Similarabandonment, cancellation, dismantling

   Note

   The true noun takes the and of rather than a direct object: the scrapping of the first Pacers, where the gerund would say scrapping the first Pacers. It can also be counted, and shipping statistics do exactly that, tallying each vessel broken up as one of the year's scrappings.

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