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refuse collector

NOUN
garbage man
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State media editorials have encouraged young graduates to "roll up their sleeves" and by profiling a woman in her 20s who became a refuse collector after a brief stint as an accountant.

From Reuters • May 31, 2023

When she was small she wanted to be a refuse collector.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2019

The refuse collector scans and weighs your bins, the information goes in a database, and then you are charged for your un-recycled waste.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2016

A refuse collector noticed a door open at Ms Akhtar's house in Cobden Crescent later that morning.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2015

The dung beetle is the refuse collector of the natural system, and where would we be without them?

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2011




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