ragpicker

(redirected from ragpickers)
Also found in: Thesaurus.

rag·pick·er

(răg′pĭk′ər)

One who makes a living scavenging rags and other refuse.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ragpicker

(ˈræɡˌpɪkə)

(Professions) Brit another word for rag-and-bone man

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

rag•pick•er

(ˈrægˌpɪk ər)

n.

a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.

[1855–60]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

ragpicker - an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood

unskilled person - a person who lacks technical training

Translations

ragpicker

[ˈrægpɪkəʳ] N → trapero m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

"I'll give you four pennies for your A-B-C book," said a ragpicker who stood by.

View in context

"Ragpickers used to give garbage to private people in exchange for money.

Soon, a Chhattisgarh cafe will provide food in exchange for plastic waste

WWF-Pakistan, in collaboration with a beverage company, has formally reached out to waste dealers and ragpickers for the very first time, with an inclusive approach to facilitate key stakeholders in creating a 'Pakistan without Waste'.

WWF, ragpickers to work towards waste-free Pakistan

Even though they were aware of the recyclable collection provided by the municipal service and the existence of ragpickers where they lived, they still did not seem motivated to practice their knowledge as workers at home.

Workers' perception of hazards on recycling sorting facilities in Sao Paulo, Brazil/Percepcao dos trabalhadores quanto aos perigos em centrais de triagem de reciclaveis em Sao Paulo, Brasil

For ragpickers, sifting through garbage and collecting recyclable material such as a kilo of paper fetches them Rs 15 while it is Rs 30 per kilo for bottles.

For some children, the street is their home

A few hundred thousand people earn money from being ragpickers in Delhi.

A crisis of waste grips India

Minor psychiatric disorders among Brazilian ragpickers: a cross-sectional study.

Only up to 20% was recycled after being segregated by ragpickers. Till a year back, Indore was choking in smog.

Dirty India's Swachh switch

Thus young Jagtap's first brush with the 'industry' was a project which set up a plastic recycling unit, to augment the income of ragpickers. But the unit was often idle, as ragpickers did not have a reliable source of plastic waste.

The Curious Case of a Clean Clean Indore

While Gioni celebrates the gleaners and ragpickers, what determines their relevance to the present are the ways in which they distill meaning from their reorganized detritus, whether through the conceptual process of taxonomic classification, serial repetition, progressive sequencing, or sheer accumulation.