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English
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.
- Synonym: GC
2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 135:Java uses a technique known as garbage collection to remove objects that are no longer needed. The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.
Synonyms
- (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, see Thesaurus:garbage collector
Hypernyms
Translations
worker
- Arabic: جَامِع الْمُخَلَّفَات (jāmiʕ al-muḵallafāt), جَامِعَة الْمُخَلَّفَات f (jāmiʕa(t) al-muḵallafāt)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܲܢܵܫܵܐ ܕܙܸܒܠܵܐ m (kanāšā d-ziblā), ܟܲܢܵܫܬܵܐ ܕܙܸܒܠܵܐ f (kanāštā d-ziblā)
- Belarusian: смяця́р m (smjacjár), смяця́рка f (smjacjárka)
- Bikol Central: basurero
- Bulgarian: боклукчи́я m (boklukčíja), боклукчи́йка f (boklukčíjka)
- Catalan: escombriaire (ca) m
- Czech: popelář (cs) m, popelářka f
- Dutch: vuilnisman (nl) m, vuilnisvrouw f
- Finnish: roskakuski (fi)
- French: éboueur (fr) m, éboueuse (fr) f
- German: Müllmann (de) m (normal); Müllwerker (de) m (officialese); Müllfrau (de) f, Müllwerkerin (de) f
- Greek: σκουπιδιάρης (el) m (skoupidiáris)
- Hungarian: kukás (hu)
- Icelandic: ruslakarl m, sorphreinsunarmaður m, öskukarl m
- Italian: netturbino (it) m, spazzino (it) m, operatore ecologico m
- Macedonian: ѓубретар m (ǵubretar), ѓубретарка f (ǵubretarka)
- Polish: śmieciarz (pl) m, śmieciarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: lixeiro (pt) m, lixeira (pt) f
- Romanian: gunoier (ro) m, gunoieră (ro) f
- Russian: му́сорщик (ru) m (músorščik), му́сорщица (ru) f (músorščica) (woman)
- Slovak: smetiar m, smetiarka f
- Spanish: basurero (es) m, basurera f
- Swedish: sophämtare (sv) c, sopgubbe (sv) c (garbage man)
- Turkish: çöpçü (tr)
- Ukrainian: сміття́р m (smittjár), сміття́рка f (smittjárka)
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