garbage collectorn.
/ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ kəˌlɛktə/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrbɪdʒ kəˌlɛktər/ 1. A person employed to collect garbage, esp. household waste, for disposal.rare in British, Irish, and New Zealand English.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > one who
muckman1569
dustman1707
garbage collector1847
scaffy1853
refuse collector1876
sanitation man1939
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1847 N.Y. Herald 22 June A memorial was received from the garbage collectors, praying to have their wages increased to $2 per day.
1924 Collier's 19 Jan. 19/3 They determine whether the garbage collector or the street cleaner is responsible for the removal of dead cats from blind alleys.
1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Oct. 5 City garbage collectors had been especially indolent.
2019 Himalayan Times (Nexis) 27 July We want people to develop a habit of segregating waste at their homes before they hand over the waste to garbage collectors.
2. Computing. A routine that automatically deletes data no longer of use or accessible to a program, so as to reclaim the memory it occupies for other purposes.
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garbage collector1960
1960 J. McCarthy et al. LISP I Programmer's Man. 96 The program which retrieves the storage is a SAP-coded program called the garbage collector.
2017 P. Sestoft Programming Lang. Concepts (ed. 2) x. 194 A program that uses more memory than necessary will also be slower than necessary because the garbage collector occasionally has to look at, and perhaps move, the data.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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