dumpster divingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dumpster diving (uncountable)

1. (US) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.

   Hyponym: binology

   • 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town‎:

     Alan crawled to the back of the store, to Kurt’s den, sure that his friend would have been back there, worn out from a night’s dumpster diving.

使用する際の注意点

• "Diving" in the term refers to putting one's hands into the dumpster (or other receptacle storing discarded items) rather than one's whole body.

派生語

動詞

dumpster diving

1. present participle of dumpster dive

同意語

• binning, D-Mart, dumpstering
• garbage gleaning, garbage picking, garbing
• skip-raiding, skipping, tatting
• trashing

派生語

• dumpster dive
• dumpster diver

参考

• freeganism
• scavenge

Further reading

• dumpster diving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia