refuse collection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrefuseandcollection
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refuse
noun[U]
uk/ˈref.juːs/us/ˈref.juːs/
unwanted waste material, especially material that is regularly thrown away from a house, ...
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collection
noun
uk/kəˈlek.ʃən/us/kəˈlek.ʃən/
a group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in ...
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(Definition ofrefuseandcollectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Here public services have become increasingly substandard withrefusecollectioneither infrequent or ad hoc.
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Good facilities and local services were also important (the following were mentioned : shops, markets, post-office, health services, street lighting,refusecollection, police, and local or mobile library).
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It will mean that the landladies will have to pay for theirrefusecollection.
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Coal has to be taken through the front door, andrefusecollectionis extremely difficult.
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They should intensify the provision of housekeeping services such as street cleaning,refusecollection, adequate rodent control and general maintenance of the surroundings.
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These are rural slums, places in which people are forced to live where there is no sanitation and norefusecollection.
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It put out a single huge tender for itsrefusecollectionservices, street cleaning, public convenience and building cleaning.
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Overall, these notices covered building maintenance work, highway and sewer maintenance work,refusecollection, street cleaning, ground maintenance work, building cleaning and vehicle maintenance.
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As regards street cleaning, it specifies the day of sweeping, the type of sweeping and the day of therefusecollection.
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Moreover, every citizen benefits from street lighting, street cleaning,refusecollection, road and pavement maintenance and, arguably, parks and other open spaces.
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I refer to street cleaning,refusecollectionand the like.
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The range of local authority responsibilities is enormous—from education and planning torefusecollection; from social services to street lighting.
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It is now experimenting with a newly designedrefusecollectionvessel.
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The menfolk worked for the local authorityrefusecollectiondepartment.
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This year,refusecollectionwill cost £119 million, but poll tax collection will cost £141 million.
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The effect of non-returnable containers onrefusecollectionand disposal services should not be under-estimated.
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We hope that the working party onrefusecollectionwill report by the end of the year.
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That leads to hugely disproportionate costs in street cleaning,refusecollection, ground and street furniture maintenance and, particularly, policing.
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