Meaning

2 senses

  1. To reclaim resources which are no longer in use; to run a garbage collector.

  2. (transitive)To destroy (an object that is no longer in use) during the process of garbage collection

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Our garbage is collected three times a week.

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  2. Burnable garbage is collected on Tuesday and Wednesday every week.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

garbage collects, garbage collecting, garbage collected, garbage collected
Base formgarbage collect · to garbage collect
3rd person singulargarbage collects
Present participlegarbage collecting
Past simplegarbage collected
Past participlegarbage collected

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygarbage collect
he, she, itgarbage collects

Past simpleLesson

all personsgarbage collected

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave garbage collected
he, she, ithas garbage collected

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill garbage collect

Synonyms

1 synonyms
GC

Word family

2 related words
Relatedgarbage collectiongarbage collector

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
garbgarbageA1garbanzogarbogardenA1
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