Cryptic crossword clue
Sacramento, a dump in California 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CAPITAL

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What does CAPITAL mean?

CAPITAL noun
  1. Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
  2. Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
  3. A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
  4. The most important city in the field specified.
  5. An uppercase letter.
  6. The uppermost part of a column.
  7. Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
  8. (by extension) The chief or most important thing.
CAPITAL adjective
  1. Of prime importance.
  2. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
  3. Excellent.
  4. Involving punishment by death.
  5. Uppercase.
  6. Of or relating to the head.

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