dustcart

Thân thiện

The dustcart collects the rubbish bins on the street.

Definition

Noun: A large motor vehicle designed and used for collecting household waste or garbage from residential areas.

Usage

• The dustcart comes to our street every Tuesday morning.
• Please make sure your bins are out before the dustcart arrives.
• The noise of the dustcart woke me up.

Advanced Usage

• The term is primarily used in British English. In American English, the equivalent term is "garbage truck" or "trash truck."
• It can be used figuratively to describe something large, noisy, or inelegant.
  • His old car sounded like a dustcart starting up.

Variants and Related Words

• Dustman (n., chiefly British): A person whose job is to collect household waste; a garbage collector.
• Refuse truck (n.): A more formal term for a vehicle that collects waste.
• Garbage truck (n., chiefly North American): The common American English equivalent.

Synonyms

• Garbage truck
• Trash truck
• Refuse truck
• Rubbish truck (chiefly British)
• Bin lorry (informal British)

Antonyms

• There is no direct antonym, but vehicles with opposite functions could be considered, such as a delivery truck.

Related Phrases/Idioms

• To follow the dustcart: To be last or to have the least desirable position.
  • In the race for promotion, he felt he was following the dustcart.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a truck for collecting domestic refuse
   • in Britain a garbage truck is called a dustcart

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• garbage truck