Street Sweeper

  

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Street Sweeper

Definition: Street Sweeper

Street Sweeper

Noun

1. A worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Street Sweeper

DomainDefinition

Occupations

Sweeps refuse from municipal streets, gutters, and sidewalks into pile and shovels refuse into movable container that is pushed from place to place. May pick up paper and similar rubbish from lawns, flower beds, or highway median strips, using spike-tipped stick. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Street Sweeper

Synonym: street cleaner (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Street Sweeper

Specialty definitions using "street sweeper": MAINTENANCE WORKER, MUNICIPAL. (references)

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Modern Usage: Street Sweeper

DomainUsage

Lyrics

If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Street Sweeper

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Street Sweeper

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Street Sweeper

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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199

street sweeper truck

3

shotgun street sweeper

41

mobil street sweeper

3

gun street sweeper

9

1 street sweeper volume

3

used street sweeper

7

cobray street sweeper

2

1 street sweeper vol

5

johnston street sweeper

2

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5

rental street sweeper

2

elgin street sweeper

5

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2

1 dj kay slay street sweeper vol

4

gun shot street sweeper

2

sale street sweeper

4

street sweeper broom

2

12 gauge street sweeper

4

part street sweeper

2

street sweeper toy

3

movie street sweeper

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Street Sweeper

Language Translations for "street sweeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fshesar (scavenger, sweeper). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уличен метач (orderly, scavenger, sweeper), машина за метене на улиците. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kadunlakaisija. (various references)

   

German

  

Straßenkehrer (cleanser, road sweeper, scavenger, scavengers, sweeper). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οδοκαθαριστήσ (scavenger). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utcaseprõ (scavenger, sweeper). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spazzino (dustman, roadsweeper, scavenger, sweeper). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"路掃除人 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どうろそうじじ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eetstray eepersway

   

Romanian

  

podar (bridge builder, ferryman, rafter). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

метельщик улиц (street orderly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mašina za čišćenje ulica, čistač ulice (scavenger). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

barrendero (scavenger, sweeper). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gatsopare (scavenger). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

машина для підмітання вулиць, підмітальник вулиць (sweep). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Street Sweeper

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-e-p-r-r-s-s-t-t-w"

-4 letters: peetweets, pesterers, pewterers, resetters.

-5 letters: peetweet, pesterer, pewterer, presters, pretests, resetter, steepers, steepest, steerers, strewers, sweepers, sweetest, tweeters, wresters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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