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Definition of ragpicker in English: ragpickernounˈraɡpɪkəˈraɡˌpikər A person who collects and sells rags. Example sentencesExamples - The Tapias are ragpickers who earn a living from a nearby municipal dump.
- More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers, swill-gatherers, bootblacks.
- He began to work as a ragpicker and lived in the railway station.
- Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders.
- His father still works as a ragpicker, pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.
Definition of ragpicker in US English: ragpickernounˈraɡˌpikər A person who collects and sells rags. Example sentencesExamples - The Tapias are ragpickers who earn a living from a nearby municipal dump.
- More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers, swill-gatherers, bootblacks.
- His father still works as a ragpicker, pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.
- Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders.
- He began to work as a ragpicker and lived in the railway station.
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