garbage collection

1. 1.

   the collection and removal of garbage

   Synonymsgarbage pickuptrash collectiontrash pickup

   Broaderpickup

Questions about garbage collection

What does garbage collection mean?

garbage collection means "the collection and removal of garbage".

What is another word for garbage collection?

Close synonyms include garbage pickup, trash collection, trash pickup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garbage collection a common word?

garbage collection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.