sweeper
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈswiːpər/
:
barrendero
- Every week, the city hires a street sweeper to maintain the cleanliness of the downtown area.
- street sweeper
Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.
- Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.
- If it falls, you'll love to be a street sweeper.
- I first got going to a A and I my first ever job and it was a, it was a litter picker, a street sweeper in Kingston upon Thames, right?
Examples
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And even the street sweepers wore masks.
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A harassed-looking sweeper trudged through the chaos.
Fiction book (2000) -
In America even the street sweeper has a car.
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We just got passed by a street sweeper.
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One is a city street sweeper at night, and the other is a factory worker.
Blog text (1) -
You'd have yourself a real street sweeper here if you put a little work into it.
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He's the only man in Highlands licensed to operate the street sweeper.
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The city's street sweepers have been MIA for months at a time.
Blog text (33) -
The street sweeper made his rounds early in the morning to keep the streets clean.
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After the parade, the street sweeper quickly cleared away the leftover confetti and debris.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who cleans houses or offices as their job
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2.1
A person who works for the city to clean streets
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1.0
A person who cleans public streets for the city
Compounds
- Archaic
1
3.5
A device with moving brushes that you push over carpets to collect dirt
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweeper comes from the verb sweep meaning 'to brush or push dirt in a wide movement' plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So a sweeper is a person whose job is to sweep floors or streets.