Usually means: Manages memory by reclaiming resources.
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  1. garbage collector: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. garbage collector: Collins English Dictionary
  3. garbage collector: Vocabulary.com
  4. garbage collector: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. garbage collector: Wiktionary
  6. garbage collector: Dictionary.com
  7. Garbage collector (computer science), Garbage collector: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. garbage collector: Rhymezone
  9. garbage collector: FreeDictionary.org
  10. garbage collector: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. garbage collector: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. garbage collector: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (garbage collector)

noun:  (US, Canada) A worker who removes refuse.
noun:  (programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.

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