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单词 dustman
释义
  • English

dustmannoun [ C ]

uk/ˈdʌst.mən/us/ˈdʌst.mən/plural -men uk/-mən/usUK US garbageman, UK formal refuse collector

a person whose job is to empty people's dustbins and take the rubbish away

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Social services & sanitation

  • aftercare
  • aid worker
  • assisted living
  • binman
  • care
  • children's home
  • day care
  • garbage collector
  • garbage man
  • health service
  • meals on wheels
  • outreach
  • public service
  • refuse collector
  • sanitary
  • sanitation
  • sanitation worker 1
  • sanitation worker
  • social service
  • social worker

Examples from literature

  • And now we may turn to the wages of dustmen, who are, it must be admitted, a most estimable class of men and most useful. 
  • But, to make up to them for having to do such nasty work, they were not left black and dirty, as poor chimney-sweeps and dustmen are. 
  • Dustmen scavenged through the rubbish on the streets. 
  • In these days of keen competition every one lies—every editor, publisher, undertaker, piano-tuner, dustman—they couldn't live if they didn't. 
  • It is not good to know that a dustman makes more money than hundreds of hard-worked and well-educated men, for this is a grotesque state of things brought about by imbecile Government officials. 
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