"dumpster diving" meaning in English

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Noun

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

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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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.