Noun: garbage collector
- [N. Amer] Someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse
"The garbage collector arrived early every Tuesday to collect the neighbourhood's trash";
- garbage carter [N. Amer], garbage hauler [N. Amer], refuse collector, garbo [Austral, informal]
- (computing) a program subsystem that automatically frees memory that is no longer used or referenced by the program
"The garbage collector helps prevent memory leaks in Java programs"
Derived forms: garbage collectors
Type of: hauler [N. Amer], haulier [Brit]
Encyclopedia: Garbage collector