street sweeper (plural street sweepers)
- A person who is employed to sweep streets, pavements, and gutters, keeping them clear of litter.
- Synonyms: (Philippines) metro aide, roadsweeper, (Britain, dialectal, dated) scaffie, (Scotland, colloquial) scaffy, (UK, obsolete) scavenger, street cleaner, streetcleaner, (US) whitewing
- A machine used to sweep streets.
person employed to sweep streets, etc.
- Bulgarian: уличен метач m (uličen metač)
- Catalan: escombriaire (ca) m or f, escombrador m, escombradora f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 清道夫 (cing1 dou6 fu1)
- Mandarin: 清道夫 (zh) (qīngdàofū)
- Dutch: straatveger (nl)
- Estonian: tänavapühkija
- Finnish: kadunlakaisija, katusiivooja
- French: balayeur (fr) m
- Galician: varredor m
- German: Straßenkehrer (de) m, Straßenfeger (de) m
- Greek: οδοκαθαριστής (el) m (odokatharistís)
- Hungarian: utcaseprő (hu)
- Italian: spazzino (it) m, scopino (it) m
- Japanese: 街路清掃人
- Kannada: (please verify) ತೋಟಿ (kn) (tōṭi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: (please verify) zibilkêş (ku)
- Latvian: sētnieks m
- Lithuanian: kiemsargis m
- Norman: (Jersey) gratteux m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gatefeier m
- Nynorsk: gatefeiar m
- Persian: رفتگر (fa) (roftegar)
- Polish: zamiatacz (pl) m
- Portuguese: varredor de rua m, gari (pt) m
- Romanian: măturător (ro) m, măturătoare (ro) f
- Russian: дво́рник (ru) m (dvórnik), му́сорщик (ru) m (músorščik)
- Spanish: barrendero (es) m, barrendera (es) f
- Swedish: gatsopare (sv) c, gatsoperska c (female)
- Urdu: خاکروب
- Yoruba: agbálẹ̀, gbálẹ̀gbálẹ̀
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machine used to sweep streets