noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
garbage can
garbage collector
garbage disposal
garbage man
garbage truck
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
can
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His long screaming charge ended with him red-faced, gasping for breath - and with Viola Angotti pinned against the garbage cans .
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Several doors had been propped open with garbage cans , and footage from the security cameras was missing.
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Dumping Viola Angotti in the garbage can was a way of re-establishing his pride - of making himself feel big and important.
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How about the rattling of metal, not plastic, garbage cans ?
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He laid it on top of one of the garbage cans lined up in front of his building.
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Wagons are what we have now instead of garbage cans in my little hometown of Lufkin.
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For a while her favorite subject was garbage cans .
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Anyway, I went downstairs to investigate and discovered the noise was coming from outside by the garbage cans .
collection
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For longer sentences there is a vast amount of garbage collection required.
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When these findings attracted media attention, Mayor Lindsay appointed a commission to look into the option of contracting out garbage collection .
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Paul with garbage collection , for example.
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The Phoenix Department of Public Works does this by competing in garbage collection .
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The board fired the garbage collection service and contracted with another young man, on condition that he hire Kenilworth-Parkside residents.
collector
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Everybody else became a fireman or a cop or a garbage collector or 3 truck driver.
disposal
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The man who shared her apartment was surly, unfriendly, and always complaining about the lifts and the garbage disposal .
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Her gear shifts sounded like twenty cooks pushing trays of silverware into an industrial-strength garbage disposal .
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Run lemon wedges or fresh mint leaves through garbage disposal to kill odors.
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On the other hand, we understand why you would prefer not to see usable food go down the garbage disposal .
dump
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Bigger garbage firms developed as concern about the safety of garbage dumps did.
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Trashmore, a local toboggan hill built atop a garbage dump .
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The largest group work at the municipal garbage dump near the banks of the river Cauca.
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It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump .
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He could be very thorough ... A body on a garbage dump nine miles out west of Atlanta.
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The entryway was a garbage dump for rotted food, and the stairways reeked of old and pungent uric acid.
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Countless numbers of discarded water jugs and plastic trash bags have turned many areas into garbage dumps .
man
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He praised the virtues of volunteerism and made vague mention of garbage men he knows who collect trash as volunteers.
picker
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A final factor contributes to the low income of garbage pickers and this relates to their involvement in the international economy.
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The garbage picker appears to work for himself but is in fact part of an industrial organisation.
truck
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Put a David Smith out for the garbage truck to haul off?
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At Twentieth and Blake he saw a man swabbing a garbage truck .
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The threat is as if a garbage truck had overturned and dumped wilted intellectual lettuce on bystanders.
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Sunlight coming through a nearby window or the sound of an early morning garbage truck can disturb a light sleeper.
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And putting it in an alley can cause garbage trucks to sink up to their axles.
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So he bought this old Dodge and washed it Howard stared at the garbage truck cruising slowly down the street.
■ VERB
take
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The man will more often take out the garbage , wash the dishes, and do other chores around the house.
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I leave them after exchanging pleasantries, taking the garbage downstairs with me.
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List all the essential tasks from buying groceries to taking out the garbage .
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San Marcos, which has been a county dump customer, has not decided where it will take its garbage .
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Some cities, however, have threatened to form a coalition to take their municipal garbage anywhere but county dumps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't buy from that store -- most of the stuff there is garbage .
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The garbage is under the sink.
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The attic was full of all kinds of garbage , including an old stereo and boxes of broken toys.
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You can throw out all the stuff in that cupboard, it's garbage .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, oh, how the garbage is sanitised and transmuted by the alchemy of the machine!
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Material suitable for deep sea dumping included sewage sludge, industrial waste, and toxic ashes left after the incineration of garbage .
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Such costly advances in disposal have strengthened big garbage companies, but are putting small ones out of business.
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When the rains came, they huddled under umbrellas and makeshift tents and donned ponchos or raincoats fashioned from plastic garbage bags.