garbages

English

Verb

garbages

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of garbage

Noun

garbages pl (plural only)

  1. (India) Garbage; waste; refuse.
    • 1980, Calcutta Municipal Gazette, volume 98, page 1787:
      In market areas the commercial people provides necessary incentives to the municipal sweepers to keep the area clean of garbages. The problem is the "disposal" of the garbage.
    • 1994, Najmir Nur Begum, Centre for Family Services, Low-income families of metropolitan Dhaka, page 98:
      It is a common observation that garbages are scattered around the slums. The respondents complained that the municipal sweepers seldom bother to collect the accumulated garbages from around the slums.
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