garbage collection

Noun

Canada US uncountable usually

(Canada, US) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.

Japanese Meaning

地方公共団体などが運営する、家庭から出るごみを適切な処分施設に運搬・処理するサービス。 / 家庭ごみの回収および処分のための公共サービス。

Garbage collection in our neighborhood happens every Tuesday morning, so please put your bins out the night before.

私たちの地域ではごみ収集が毎週火曜日の朝に行われるので、前の晩にゴミ箱を外に出しておいてください。

Sense（1）

(Canada, US) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.

Sense（2）

(programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.

garbage collections

（ plural ）