dustbin
noun/ˈdʌstbɪn/
/ˈdʌstbɪn/
(British English) (North American English garbage can, trash can)
- a large container with a lid (= cover), used for putting rubbish in, usually kept outside the house
- We put out the dustbins on a Wednesday morning before the bin lorry comes.
British/American rubbish / garbage / trash / refuserubbish / garbage / trash / refuse- Rubbish is the usual word in British English for the things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them. Garbage and trash are both used in North American English. Inside the home, garbage tends to mean waste food and other wet material, while trash is paper, card and dry material.
- In British English, you put your rubbish in a dustbin in the street to be collected by the dustmen. In North American English, your garbage and trash goes in a garbage can/trashcan in the street and is collected by garbage men/collectors.
- Refuse is a formal word and is used in both British English and North American English. Refuse collector is the formal word for a dustman or garbage collector.
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesb2- How regularly are the dustbins emptied?
- These old shoes can go in the dustbin now.
- She chucked the mouldy potatoes in the dustbin.
- (figurative) The politicians who lost the elections will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
- (figurative) The pollution in this country makes it the dustbin of Europe.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + dustbin- chuck something in
- dump something in
- throw something in
- …
- bag
- liner
- lid
- …
- dustbin of
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