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GARBAGE COLLECTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does garbage collection mean?
• GARBAGE COLLECTION (noun)
The noun GARBAGE COLLECTION has 1 sense:
1. the collection and removal of garbage
Familiarity information: GARBAGE COLLECTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The collection and removal of garbage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
garbage collection; garbage pickup; trash collection; trash pickup
Hypernyms ("garbage collection" is a kind of...):
pickup (the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places)
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