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cartoneros

cartoneros is the plural of cartonero.

Meaning of cartonero

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

Questions about cartoneros

What is cartoneros the plural of?
Cartoneros is the plural of cartonero.

Words near cartoneros in the dictionary

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

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