dustcart
noun
British
A vehicle used for collecting household refuse.
- ‘Buses, articulated lorries, dustcarts and family cars are all forced to mount it on a day-to-day basis, wrecking road surfaces, kerb stones and drains.’
- ‘However, exceptions were made in Bushey Court, Avenue Road and Parkfield Avenue, as there were specific problems about access for emergency vehicles and service vehicles such as dustcarts that do not apply to the other roads.’
- ‘It wants to integrate street cleaning and rubbish collection, so streets can be swept after dustcarts have been through.’
- ‘Because the dustcarts come every night to pick up the rubbish left out by the restaurant and bar next to us, we also leave our refuse sacks out in the evenings to be collected along with everything else.’
- ‘The money will be spent on extra dustcarts and employing more council bin men to implement the new rubbish collection regime.’
- ‘A family man who died after being crushed between two dustcarts was laid to rest during a private funeral.’
- ‘How many readers have stood at the top of a landfill site and watched the dustcarts tipping their day's load of rubbish?’ (...)
Pronunciation
dustcart /ˈdʌs(t)kɑːt/
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dustcart
noun [C] /ˈdʌst.kɑːt/ us /-kɑːrt/ UK (US garbage truck)
a large vehicle that is driven from one house to another to collect rubbish from the dustbins outside
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Local authorities have contract repair of their electrical installations and their dustcarts.
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The district council supplied a dustcart and two men.
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Indeed, surely it would be a nonsense for them to keep a couple of dustcarts just in case of failure, as some of my noble friends have said.
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Ordinary rubbish can be tipped from the dustbin into the dustcart and away it goes, but an article of an awkward size or shape does not go.
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He died seven weeks after a motorcycling accident involving a dustcart.
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dustcart - noun
a vehicle in which household rubbish is collected.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c.
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dustcart
(dʌstkɑːʳt )
plural dustcarts
zählbares Substantiv
A dustcart is a truck which collects the rubbish from the dustbins outside people's houses. [British]
regional note: in AM, usually use garbage truck
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dustcart
a road vehicle for collecting domestic refuse
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Nominativ Plural: Wagen/Wägen
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der Wagen; Genitiv: des Wagens, Plural: die Wagen, süddeutsch, österreichisch: Wägen
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