papelera
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Spanish
A paper mill
A garbage can
A trash
Pronunciation
Noun
papelera f (plural papeleras)
- paper mill (a factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients)
- Synonyms: fábrica de papel, fábrica de celulosa
- wastepaper basket, wastebasket, wastebin, wastepaper bin
- 2015 July 18, “El jabalí duerme en el jardín”, in El País:
- Los animales, además, tumban papeleras y contenedores en pos del alimento.
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- (computing) trash, (in Microsoft Windows) recycle bin
- Synonym: (in Microsoft Windows) papelera de reciclaje
Adjective
papelera
Further reading
- “papelero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28