"dumpster diving" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdʌmpstəˈdaɪvɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdʌmpstɚˈdaɪvɪŋ/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} dumpster diving (uncountable)
  1. (US) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill. Tags: US, uncountable Hyponyms: binology
    Sense id: en-dumpster_diving-en-noun-uLUb5oKt Categories (other): American English

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈdʌmpstəˈdaɪvɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdʌmpstɚˈdaɪvɪŋ/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} dumpster diving
  1. present participle of dumpster dive Tags: form-of, participle, present Form of: dumpster dive Synonyms: binning, D-Mart, dumpstering, garbage gleaning, garbage picking, garbing, skip-raiding, skipping, tatting, trashing Derived forms: dumpster dive, dumpster diver Related terms: freeganism, scavenge Translations (act of recovering discarded items): 垃圾搜尋 (Chinese Mandarin), 垃圾搜寻 (lèsèsōuxún) (Chinese Mandarin), vybírání odpadků [masculine] (Czech), skraldning [common-gender] (Danish), dyykkaus (Finnish), roskisdyykkaus (Finnish), déchétarisme [masculine] (French), glanage alimentaire [feminine] (French), trésordure [feminine] (French), Dumpstern [neuter] (German), Containern [neuter] (German), guberálás (Hungarian), turkálás (Hungarian), kukabúvárkodás (Hungarian), ゴミ漁り (gomiisari) (Japanese), søppeldykking [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), søppeldykking [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), dumpsterdiving [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), recolección urbana [feminine] (Spanish), containerdykning [common-gender] (Swedish), sopdykning [common-gender] (Swedish), dumpstring [common-gender] (Swedish)
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.