dustman
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈdʌst.mən/
- UK
:
basurero
- There’s a dustman outside, Alfred Doolittle.
sweeper and a dustman and then working, going, going to night school and I was doing politics, a level, a level politics I was doing.
- sweeper and a dustman and then working, going, going to night school and I was doing politics, a level, a level politics I was doing.
Examples
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In England, the dustman empties your dustbin and hauls away your trash.
Fiction book (1991) -
TYLA, on the other hand, stated that part of his job was as a "dustman."
Blog text (3) -
If you please, sir, there's a dustman downstairs, Alfred P. Doolittle, who wants to see you.
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Was it him or was it not him wrote to an old American blighter named Wallingford who was giving five millions to fund moral reform societies to tell him the most original moralist in England was Mr. Alfred P. Doolittle, a common dustman?
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Mrs. Pearce, write to Mr. Ezra Wallingford and tell him if he wants a lecturer to get in touch with Mr. Alfred P. Doolittle, a common dustman, one of the most original moralists in England.
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In England, the dustman empties your dustbin and hauls away your trash.
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Every week, the dustman collects rubbish from our neighborhood on Thursday mornings.
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The dustman arrived early to clear the streets after the festival.
Synonyms
19
1.7
A person who collects trash from homes and takes it away
6
3.0
A person who collects trash from homes or shops
4
2.1
A person who collects and removes trash from homes and businesses
1
3.3
A person who collects trash and looks for things to use again or sell
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4.9
A person who collects rubbish from bins outside homes
1
9.5
A person who collects rubbish from outside people's houses
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3.1
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes and businesses
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3.0
A person or company that collects and takes away trash
A woman who collects and takes away household rubbish
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dustman is simply dust + man. The dust part meant 'small bits of ash and household rubbish', so a dustman is the person who collects and removes people's rubbish.