"crossing-sweeper" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "crossing-sweeper (plural crossing-sweepers)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Simon Heffer, “In Fagin's Footsteps”, in Literary Review, section 403",
          "text": "But the streets were also a place of work: for the humble crossing-sweeper, for example, who tried to ensure, in return for a tip, that when persons of quality crossed the road they did so without having to pick their way through dust, mud and horse dung.",
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        "Someone whose job is to sweep street crossings."
      ],
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        [
          "sweep",
          "sweep"
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        [
          "crossing",
          "crossing"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) Someone whose job is to sweep street crossings."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "crossing-sweeper"
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      "form": "crossing-sweepers",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2012, Simon Heffer, “In Fagin's Footsteps”, in Literary Review, section 403",
          "text": "But the streets were also a place of work: for the humble crossing-sweeper, for example, who tried to ensure, in return for a tip, that when persons of quality crossed the road they did so without having to pick their way through dust, mud and horse dung.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Someone whose job is to sweep street crossings."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sweep",
          "sweep"
        ],
        [
          "crossing",
          "crossing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) Someone whose job is to sweep street crossings."
      ],
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        "historical"
      ]
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  "word": "crossing-sweeper"
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