street orderly
Definition
Noun: - A "street orderly" refers to a person employed to clean and maintain the cleanliness of public streets, roads, and other outdoor municipal areas. This role is synonymous with a street sweeper or sanitation worker.
Usage Examples
- (A sanitation worker performing cleaning duties.)
- (Municipal workers assigned to clean public spaces.)
Advanced Usage
- "to act as a street orderly": to perform the duties of cleaning streets, often used in a descriptive or historical context.
- During the Great Depression, many unemployed men were hired to act as street orderlies for the city. (They were employed as street cleaners.)
Variants and Related Words
Street-sweeper (n): a person or machine that cleans streets. This is a direct synonym for "street orderly".
- The street-sweeper passed by our house at dawn every Tuesday. (The cleaning vehicle or worker.)
Orderly (adj/n): as an adjective, meaning neat and tidy; as a noun, it can also refer to a hospital attendant, but not a street cleaner.
- The orderly arrangement of the books impressed the librarian. (Neatly arranged.)
Synonyms
- Sanitation worker: a person employed in waste collection or street cleaning.
- Cleaning operative: a general term for someone who cleans public or private spaces.
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