garbage collector

See also: Garbage Collector and garbage-collector

English

garbage collector (plural garbage collectors)

(US, Canada) A worker who removes refuse.
(programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
Synonym: GC
- 2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 135:
  Java uses a technique known as garbage collection to remove objects that are no longer needed. The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.

(worker who removes refuse): (UK) bin man, (UK) dustman, (US, Canada) garbage man, (Australia) garbo, (UK) refuse collector, (US, Canada) sanitation engineer, (US, Canada) trashman, (India) Kabaadi, see Thesaurus:garbage collector

worker

Arabic: جَامِع الْمُخَلَّفَات (jāmiʕ al-muḵallafāt), جَامِعَة الْمُخَلَّفَات f (jāmiʕa(t) al-muḵallafāt)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܲܢܵܫܵܐ ܕܙܸܒܠܵܐ m (kanāšā d-ziblā), ܟܲܢܵܫܬܵܐ ܕܙܸܒܠܵܐ f (kanāštā d-ziblā)
Belarusian: смяця́р m (smjacjár), смяця́рка f (smjacjárka)
Bikol Central: basurero
Bulgarian: боклукчи́я m (boklukčíja), боклукчи́йка f (boklukčíjka)
Catalan: escombriaire (ca) m
Czech: popelář (cs) m, popelářka f
Finnish: roskakuski (fi)
French: éboueur (fr) m, éboueuse (fr) f
German: Müllmann (de) m (normal); Müllwerker (de) m (officialese); Müllfrau (de) f, Müllwerkerin (de) f
Greek: σκουπιδιάρης (el) m (skoupidiáris)
Hungarian: kukás (hu)
Icelandic: ruslakarl m, sorphreinsunarmaður m, öskukarl m
Italian: netturbino (it) m, spazzino (it) m, operatore ecologico m
Macedonian: ѓубретар m (ǵubretar), ѓубретарка f (ǵubretarka)
Polish: śmieciarz (pl) m, śmieciarka (pl) f
Portuguese: lixeiro (pt) m, lixeira (pt) f
Romanian: gunoier (ro) m, gunoieră (ro) f
Russian: му́сорщик (ru) m (músorščik), му́сорщица (ru) f (músorščica) (woman)
Slovak: smetiar m, smetiarka f
Spanish: basurero (es) m, basurera f
Swedish: sophämtare (sv) c, sopgubbe (sv) c (garbage man)
Turkish: çöpçü (tr)
Ukrainian: сміття́р m (smittjár), сміття́рка f (smittjárka)

program

Finnish: roskienkeräin, roskienkerääjä
French: ramasse-miettes (fr) m, glaneur de cellules (fr) m, récupérateur de mémoire (fr) m
German: Garbage Collector m
Greek: συλλέκτης απορριμάτων m (sylléktis aporrimáton)
Icelandic: ruslasafnari m, ruslsafnari m, ruslsópari m
Portuguese: coletor de lixo
Russian: сбо́рщик му́сора m (sbórščik músora)
Spanish: recolector de basura m
Swedish: skräpsamlare c

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