refuse (noun)
31cotton waste — noun : waste 4a(1) * * * cotton waste noun Refuse from cotton mills, used for cleaning machinery, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑cotton * * * cotton waste, refuse yarn from the manufacture of cotton, used especially for cleaning machinery and packing… …
32bin man — noun a male with the job of collecting refuse from peoples homes and transporting it to a refuse tip for processing. Syn: dustman, garbage collector, garbage man, garbo, refuse collector, sanitation engineer, trashman …
33brush-off — noun a curt or disdainful rejection • Derivationally related forms: ↑brush off • Hypernyms: ↑rejection * * * n discouragement, dismissal, rebuff, refusal, rejection, repudiation, repulse, slight, snub FORMAL repu …
34entry — noun 1 right to enter sth ADJECTIVE ▪ free ▪ The club offers free entry to women on Thursdays. ▪ college, school, university (esp. BrE) VERB + ENTRY …
35waste product — noun any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted they collect the waste once a week much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers • Syn: ↑waste, ↑waste material, ↑waste matter • Derivationally related forms: ↑waste …
36gentlemen's agreement — noun a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding • Hypernyms: ↑agreement, ↑understanding * * * noun see gentleman s agreement * * * 1. an agreement that, although unenforceable at law, is binding as a matter of personal honor. 2.… …
37hunger strike — noun a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest • Hypernyms: ↑fast, ↑fasting, ↑passive resistance, ↑nonviolent resistance, ↑nonviolence * * * noun, pl ⋯ strikes [count] : the act of refusing to eat as a way of showing that you strongly… …
38work-to-rule — ¦ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ˈ ̷ ̷ noun chiefly Britain : the practice of working according to the strictest interpretation of the rules so as to slow down production and force employers to comply with demands • work to rule intransitive verb, chiefly Britain * *… …
39scavenger — noun Etymology: alteration of earlier scavager, from Anglo French scawageour collector of scavage (duty collected from non resident street merchants), from skawage scavage, from Middle French dialect (Flanders) escauver to inspect, from Middle… …
40garbologist — noun a) One who examines refuse using archaeological techniques or fervor. A garbologist forages through waste paper baskets in search of interesting documents. b) A garbage collector. Syn: biffa sniffer, dumpster diver, garbage collector, refuse …
