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词汇 sweeper
释义 sweeper
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈswiː.pər/ us /ˈswiː.pɚ/

sweepernoun[C] (CLEANING)


someone or something that sweeps something clean: 清扫工;扫除机,清扫机
a carpet sweeper (= a machine for cleaning carpets)地毯清扫机
a road sweeper (= a person whose job is cleaning the roads)清道夫,马路清洁工
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Equipment used for cleaning
bath towel
besom
broom
broomstick
carpet sweeper
fogger
garbage stick
HEPA filter
Hoover
household goods
mop
paper towel
pressure washer
rag
scrubbing brush
vacuum
vacuum cleaner
waste picker
wet wipe
wire brush

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People who clean & tidy places & things

sweepernoun[C] (FOOTBALL)


In football, a sweeper is a player whose position is behind the other defenders (= players whose main aim is to stop points from being scored) .(足球)清道夫,拖后中卫
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Football/soccer
18-yard box
2 3 5
4 3 2 1
4 4 2
4 5 1
foosball
football boot
football player
football pools
football pyramid
footy
premiership
professional foul
promedios
rabona
reducer
the Football League
the Premier League
treble
woodwork

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The information asked for is as follows: 10 destroyers, 20 sweepers, 6 sloops, 16 drifters, and 28 trawlers.
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Many are doing magnificent work with mine sweepers.
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There is also the case of lieutenants who are serving on mine sweepers.
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No one can have the slightest objection to mine-sweepers being included.
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The two mine-sweepers and one survey sloop belong to the latter class.
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Why, for example, are non-electrical carpet sweepers sensitive, but electric carpet sweepers, presumably, are not?
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Four steam fishing trawlers have been purchased for conversion into mine sweepers.
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While employed as mine-sweepers these trawlers will cease entirely to be fishing craft.
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After that we are lucky if we get only four carpet sweepers, and still luckier if they take only half an hour each.
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Two years later there is still no sign of those mine-sweepers, which are desperately needed to replace the ageing fleet.
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In some cases their starting salaries are little better than those of the cleaners and sweepers in the same factory.
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Whether they are royal persons or road sweepers, people are all liable occasionally to go off the rails, or to go wrong.
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When we are in our constituencies, the bus drivers, street sweepers, home helps and policemen are our employers.
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Why are we relying entirely on the coastal and inshore mine sweepers?
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The allocation of the orders for the sloop mine-sweepers will be announced within the next few days.
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