garbage pickup
2
1.3
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ ˈpɪkʌp/
- US
:
recolección de basura
- I noticed we lost our garbage pickup this week.
- garbage pickup day
Examples
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Garbage pickup, too, in areas not badly storm damaged may be reduced from three times a week.
Blog text (15) -
They would know already which areas in North Jersey did their garbage pickup first thing Monday morning.
Fiction book (2001) -
I noticed we lost our garbage pickup this week.
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The date was picked intentionally to be after the weekly garbage pickup here.
Blog text (4) -
There will be garbage pickup in Brooklyn Heights on Monday.
Blog text (12) -
Long before she sought pensions for single mothers, Addams agitated for improved garbage pickup on Chicago's West Side (to the point of running for garbage inspector herself).
Academic text (1992) -
Many also are charging higher user fees for garbage pickup, recreation centers, and other services.
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Every house gets garbage pickup twice a week; not all come with fancy granite countertops.
Synonyms
81
2.6
The act of collecting things or people to move them
3
1.9
Collection of garbage from homes or businesses by a local service
3
2.0
Collecting garbage from homes or streets
1
2.3
Picking up and taking away household or business trash
How Frequent
Surface Forms
Morphology
garbage + pickup
The meaning is transparently built from 'garbage' (waste) and 'pickup' (the act or service of picking up/collecting), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer it refers to the collection service for waste. The noun+noun compounding pattern and the parallel term 'garbage collection' (common across many languages) make the sense immediately comprehensible without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrase garbage pickup comes from the simple picture of a truck or workers actually picking up garbage at the curb, where pickup is the action of taking the trash away. So, the term means the 'service' of collecting and removing household or business waste.