street cleaner
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- noun
- /striːt ˈkliːnər/
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limpiador de calles
- Every morning, the street cleaners start their routes early to ensure the streets are tidy before commuters arrive.
And hey, I got a street cleaner.
- And hey, I got a street cleaner.
Examples
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He advises residents not to pile up their leaves on the sidewalk either, because it causes problems for street cleaners.
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Instead, there is the distant din of taxicabs and the spray of a street cleaner raining down on the sidewalk.
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The street cleaners are already at work.
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The Mission: for one night only, Will Smith is a West End street cleaner...
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The sound of the street cleaner going by my house brings me back every time to when I was a kid and those awesome days of summer.
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Amsden added that the city is looking into the possibility of purchasing a compact street cleaner, especially for use on the bike lanes.
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Based on government sources, there are 1,304 Roma working for the public administration, but this includes 1,000 people on the public payroll, such as street cleaners.
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Transit police, street cleaners, shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and hotel keepers are all involved in caring for those who watch the parade.
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So it is with a mix of nostalgia and trepidation that I make my way to Veolia Environmental Services on Newport Place to begin my night shift as a street cleaner.
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At the demonstration's end, marchers go off to their daily affairs, police take down their barricades, street cleaners sweep up debris, merchants unshutter their shops, reporters file their stories, officials deliberate on how, if at all, they will respond to the day's events, and politicians chat about what it all means for their causes.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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1.3
A person who cleans floors or streets using a broom
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2.1
A person who works for the city to clean streets
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person whose job is to clean public streets' is directly and compositionally derived from 'street' (public road) + 'cleaner' (person who cleans); the noun+noun compound pattern (modifier + head) transparently indicates the object of cleaning. This is a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Street cleaner: The name street cleaner comes from the simple image of a street and a cleaner. It is used for the person who sweeps or washes roads to remove dirt and litter, so today it means 'a person whose job is to clean public streets'.