noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bin/dustbin bag British English
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Use the black bin bags provided by the council.
consign sb/sth to the dustbin/scrapheap/rubbish heap etc British English
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Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.
consign sth to the dustbin of history (= to forget about something that existed in the past – used especially when saying that you will feel glad when people have got rid of something )
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One day nuclear weapons will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
dustbin man
dustbin/saucepan etc lid
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the name on the coffin lid
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lid
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Next morning the din from the dustbin lids had hardly subsided when the grim realization drove into my brain.
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Melissa heard the sounds of a dustbin lid being replaced and the running of a tap as Eleanor washed her hands.
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We had been wakened as on my first morning by the hideous 6 a.m. clattering of dustbin lids .
man
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At Christmas the dustbin men always knocked to give Mrs Murphy a box of chocolates and a bunch of flowers.
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And all those nice dustbin men would be out of a job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dustbin derby: Schools throughout Langbaurgh are competing for Telethon's dustbin derby by collecting plastic bags for recycling.
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Have you any notion what people put in dustbins?
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He found the letter of introduction to Monsieur Messidor and tossed it into the dustbin .
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It was a black plastic dustbin bag.
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Next morning the din from the dustbin lids had hardly subsided when the grim realization drove into my brain.
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Old Ape rooted in the dustbins outside Phyl's Phries.
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Only this time, it was found rolling around in a dustbin .
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Was lying beside dustbins and boxes of waste paper, just inside the locked gates to the yard.