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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dustman
noun
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▪ A dustman who found the body early this morning called an ambulance.
▪ He was found unconscious on the pavement by a dustman, who called for an ambulance.
▪ It is that time of year when dawn and dustmen arrive together.
▪ It was followed by a rash of local selective strikes by health-service workers, dustmen, even the grave-diggers of Liverpool.
▪ Mum was a char, dad a dustman.
▪ Recently he was talking about becoming a club pro, or a dustman.
▪ You can be the Prime Minister or a dustman and it's still the most important thing in the world.
▪ You get all sorts in here, from dustmen to middle-management.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dustman

dustman \dust"man\ (d[u^]st"m[a^]n), n.; pl. dustmen (d[u^]st"m[e^]n). One whose employment is to remove dirt and refuse; a garbage man.
--Gay.

Wiktionary
dustman

n. (context British English) Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.

WordNet
dustman

n. someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn: garbage man, garbage collector, refuse collector]

Usage examples of "dustman".

More dimly, then, somewhere in mist behind, he saw other figures moving--the Dustman and the Lamplighter, the Demon Chimneysweep in black, the Woman of the Haystack--outposts and sentries of a larger fascinating host that gathered waiting in the shadows just beyond.

I am sure you did believe, then your old Dustman and Sweep and Lamplighter, your Woman of the Haystack and your Net of Stars and Star Train--all these, for instance, must still be living, where you left them, waiting perhaps for your return to lead their fresh adventures.

It struck me so in you as a boy, that even your sprites worked not for themselves but for others--your Dustman, your Sweep, your absurd Lamplighter, all were busy doing wonderful things to help their neighbours, all, too, without reward.

But the fact was, too, the Tramp, the Dustman, the Lamplighter, and the Starlight Express were all in his thoughts still.

Overhead flashed by the Sweep, the Dustman, and the Laugher, bound for distant ports, perhaps as far as England.

The Dustman gave it to you when you were not looking, gathered from the entire Zodiac.

Sweep, the Dustman, and the Lamplighter, then why not the far more powerful creations in the story.

That dustman is picking through the restaurant garbage and leaving most of it.

In his heart, he hoped against hope that the dustman would not be at home.

I might have murdered some dustman because the project was not working out?

But whether her craving for power and fame would drive her to killing one dustman seemed too far fetched.

Do you remember when that awful dustman was blackmailing me over this?

Twice when the dustman is called in to carry off a cartload of old paper, ashes, and broken bottles, the whole court assembles and pries into the baskets as they come forth.

If anybody found out they would have him on television, sandwiched between a dustman who collected Meissen and a bank-clerk who had taught his dog to smoke a pipe.

Dustmen who fail to collect garbage can arouse deep passions, and Dustmen who leave nasty green notes to explain why the rubbish is not being collected can drive the meekest to open hatred.