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cartonero

cartonero noun: a person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.

Noun

cartonero (plural cartoneros)

  1. A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
    • Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”2015 June 25, James B. Stewart, “If Greece Defaults, Imagine Argentina, but Much Worse”, in New York Times

Forms of cartonero

pluralcartoneros

Origin of cartonero

From Spanish cartonero.

Questions about cartonero

What does cartonero mean?
Cartonero means a person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
What part of speech is cartonero?
Cartonero is a noun.
What is the plural of cartonero?
The plural of cartonero is cartoneros.

Words near cartonero in the dictionary

  1. cartonboard
  2. cartonboards
  3. cartonectin
  4. cartoned
  5. cartoner
  6. cartonero
  7. cartoneros
  8. cartoners
  9. cartonful
  10. cartonfuls
  11. cartoning

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