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Dumpster

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Dump·ster  (dmpstr)
A trademark used for containers designed for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials. This trademark often occurs in print in lowercase: "[The street is] lined with low-cost apartment buildings and strewn with blue dumpsters" (Chicago Tribune).
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Noun1.DumpsterDumpster - a container designed to receive and transport and dump waste
container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product
Translations
Dumpster® [ˈdʌmpstəʳ] N (US) → contenedor m de escombros or deshechos
Dumpster® [ˈdʌmpstər] n (US) (= skip) → benne f (à ordures)
dump truck n → tombereau m
Dumpster®
n (US) → (Müll)container m


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