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street-cleaner

street-cleaner is the alternative form of streetcleaner.

Meaning of streetcleaner

Noun

streetcleaner (plural streetcleaners)

  1. A person employed to clean streets by removing litter etc.
    • On the light streets, better streetcleaners, more trees, more police, and quieter buses were the most popular improvements, followed by cutting down the number of cars and improving children's play space.1982, Donald Appleyard, Livable Streets, page 98
    Synonyms:
    street sweeper

Forms of street-cleaner

pluralstreet-cleaners

Questions about street-cleaner

What is street-cleaner the alternative form of?
Street-cleaner is the alternative form of streetcleaner.

Words near street-cleaner in the dictionary

  1. street workout
  2. street workouts
  3. street works
  4. street-arab
  5. street-arabs
  6. street-cleaner
  7. street-cleaners
  8. street-keeper
  9. street-keepers
  10. street-lamp
  11. street-lamps

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