English-Spanish translations for garbage

• basura
  Como dijo uno de los funcionarios de Washington con ese saludable tono directo de los estadounidenses: "si metes basura, sacas basura". As one of the officials in Washington said in that refreshingly direct American manner, 'garbage in, garbage out'.
  También he visto operarios del servicio de recogida de basuras y funcionarios de prisiones que han sufrido lesiones provocadas por agujas. I have also met garbage collectors and prison officers who have suffered needle-stick injuries.
  El resto es pura basura que nos inventamos en nombre de intereses que no queremos reconocer. The rest is pure and utter garbage that we are inventing in the name of interests which we do not want to admit to.
• desperdicios

Definition of garbage

• Food waste material of any kind
• Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind
• A place or receptacle for waste material
• Nonsense; gibberish
• The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal
• to eviscerate
• bad, crap, shitty

Examples

• Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
• The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
• He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
• He gave me some pretty garbage advice last night

Related words

• garbage in, garbage out
• garbage; waste
• garbage truck
• garbage bag
• garbage chute
• garbage collector
• garbage man
• garbage disposal
• garbage collection