Usually means: Searching trash for useful items.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word dumpster diving:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dumpster diving, dumpster diving: Merriam-Webster
  2. dumpster diving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dumpster diving: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dumpster-diving: Wordnik
  5. dumpster-diving, dumpster diving: Wiktionary
  6. dumpster diving: Dictionary.com
  7. Dumpster diving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. dumpster diving: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dumpster diving: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. dumpster diving: Hacking Lexicon
  3. Dumpster-diving, dumpster diving: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dumpster diving: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dumpster diving)

▸ noun:  (US) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.

Similar:
dumpster-diving, dumpster-diver, dumper, dumpage, junkdrawer, ocean dumping, garbage day, elding, ditchdigging, dumpyard, more...

Opposite:
luxury shopping, high-end retail, upscale purchasing

Phrases:
do some dumpster diving, more...

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Similar:
dumpster-diving, dumpster-diver, dumper, dumpage, junkdrawer, ocean dumping, garbage day, elding, ditchdigging, dumpyard, more...

Opposite:
luxury shopping, high-end retail, upscale purchasing

Phrases:
do some dumpster diving, more...



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