garbageman

Questions about garbageman

What does garbageman mean?

garbageman means "someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse".

How many syllables are in garbageman?

garbageman has 4 syllables and divides as gar-ba-ge-man under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for garbageman?

Close synonyms include garbage man, garbage collector, garbage carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector. 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 garbageman a common word?

garbageman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.