noun
- a large metal container for holding trash or garbage, typically used by businesses and apartment buildings
Usage: trademark, often used generically
Examples
- The restaurant workers threw the old food into the dumpster behind the building.
- The apartment complex has three dumpsters for residents to use.
- Construction crews filled the dumpster with debris from the demolition.
- She found the discarded furniture next to the dumpster.
- The garbage truck comes twice a week to empty the dumpsters.
- Someone had illegally dumped old tires near the dumpster.