garbage collector
Noun
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Noun
garbage collector (plural garbage collectors)
- (US, Canada) A worker who removes refuse.
- (programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
- (worker who removes refuse) (UK) bin man, (UK) dustman, (US, Canada) garbage man, (Australia) garbo, (UK) refuse collector, (US, Canada) sanitation engineer, (US, Canada) trashman, (India) Kabaadi
- French: éboueur
- German: Müllmann (normal); Müllwerker (officialese); Müllfrau, Müllwerkerin
- Italian: netturbino, spazzino, operatore ecologico
- Portuguese: lixeiro, lixeira
- Russian: му́сорщик
- Spanish: basurero, basurera
- French: ramasse-miettes, glaneur de cellules, récupérateur de mémoire
- German: Garbage Collector
- Portuguese: coletor de lixo
- Russian: сбо́рщик му́сора
- Spanish: recolector de basura
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