cartonero
See also: cartonerò
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cartonero (plural cartoneros)
- A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
- 2015 June 25, James B. Stewart, “If Greece Defaults, Imagine Argentina, but Much Worse”, in New York Times[1]:
- Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”
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Etymology edit
From cartón (“cardboard”) + -ero.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cartonero m (plural cartoneros, feminine cartonera, feminine plural cartoneras)
Further reading edit
- “cartonero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014