trash collection
3
2.0
- noun
- /træʃ kəˈlɛkʃən/
- US
:
recolección de basura
- The city plans to improve its trash collection service to reduce litter in public parks.
- trash collection service
- regular trash collection
- trash collection day
Examples
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The commission targeted street lights and trash collection at its meeting on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 1, said East Providence City Manager Peter Graczykowski.
Blog text (6) -
This is the county of San Diego successfully outsourced its landfill operation and and trash collection, saving millions of dollars for county taxpayers.
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The trash collection is every Wednesday morning.
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Good opportunity to readdress the issue of the high cost of trash collection in this town.
Blog text (31) -
We haven't had regular trash collection here in over 2 years.
Blog text (24) -
It was trash collection day.
Fiction book (2001) -
Marangano ran trash collection for half of Jersey.
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Between coal, electricity, and trash collection, they are already costing more than they can afford.
Blog text (24) -
It should have started in April with bi-monthly fumigation programs established and regular trash collection.
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Falls Church, Virginia, eliminated a second trash collection day and cut personnel costs by adding multimaterial curbside recycling and composting service.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
3
1.9
Collection of garbage from homes or businesses by a local service
2
1.3
A service that takes away trash from homes or businesses
1
2.3
Picking up and taking away household or business trash
How Frequent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the process of collecting and removing garbage' is directly and compositionally derived from 'trash' (rubbish) + 'collection' (the act/process of gathering). This noun + noun (entity + process) construction is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would reliably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun trash collection comes from the everyday image of workers or a truck gathering and taking away trash, the collection of waste. So it means the regular service of 'collecting and removing garbage'.