Dustman vs Cleaner - What's the difference?
dustman | cleaner |
(British) Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.
A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
A cleaning detergent.
(in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
(clean)
As nouns the difference between dustman and cleaner
is that dustman is someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed while cleaner is a person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.As an adjective cleaner is
comparative of clean.dustman
English
Noun
(dustmen)- Oh, my old man's a dustman
- He wears a dustman's hat
- He wears cor-blimey trousers
- And he lives in a council flat'' - - ''My Old Man's A Dustman
Synonyms
* bin man (UK ) * garbage collector (US, Canada ) * garbage man (US, Canada ) * garbo (Australia ) * refuse collector (UK ) * sanitation engineer (US, Canada ) * trashman (US, Canada )cleaner
English
Etymology 1
(clean) (agent noun)Noun
(en noun)- I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners .
