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# garbage

noun (garbage — uncountable)

«garbage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (mainly US, Canada) Rubbish; food waste and other things you throw away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#m1)
2. (informal) Nonsense; things that are untrue or very bad: That film was garbage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#m2)
3. (computers) Useless or meaningless data. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life in North America people take out the garbage and put it in the garbage can; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand people say «rubbish» and «bin». In science lessons garbage is sorted for recycling. Phrases: «take out the garbage», «garbage truck», «garbage can», «talk garbage».

### Examples

- It's your turn to take out the garbage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x1)
- The garbage truck comes on Tuesdays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x2)
- Put the banana peel in the garbage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x3)
- Don't talk garbage — of course you can do it! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x4)
- We sorted the garbage into paper, plastic and food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x5)
- A family throws away about 20 kg of garbage a week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable: «some garbage», «a bag of garbage», never «garbages». US/Canada: garbage, trash; UK/Australia/Ireland/NZ: rubbish; Australia also «garbo» (slang for the garbage collector). Meaning 2 is informal.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «garbage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«garbage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/garbage.html) on Mova free.