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street cleaner

American  

noun

  1. a sanitation worker who cleans streets or sidewalks.


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A temporary street cleaner died of a heat stroke while working in Madrid last year.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2023

“It’s sad and everything, but stopping everything? That’s a luxury,” said Al Mohamed, a street cleaner in north London, looking at broken beer bottles on the sidewalk.

From Washington Post Sep. 11, 2022

“The welders welded all sorts of things and hammered away. One or two tinkered with a car. Me, I’d take the street cleaner and I’d sweep the entire parking lot.”

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2022

Carmen Ortega, 74, cares for her eight grandchildren with what she earns as a street cleaner.

From Reuters Dec. 23, 2021

I go to the side and knock on the door the street cleaner described.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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