cartonero

See also: cartonerò

English

Etymology

From Spanish cartonero.

Noun

cartonero (plural cartoneros)

1. A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
   • 2015 June 25, James B. Stewart, “If Greece Defaults, Imagine Argentina, but Much Worse”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”

Anagrams

• cartooner

Spanish

Etymology

From cartón (“cardboard”) +‎ -ero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾtoˈneɾo/ [kaɾ.t̪oˈne.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: car‧to‧ne‧ro

Noun

cartonero m (plural cartoneros, feminine cartonera, feminine plural cartoneras)

1. cartonero

Further reading

• “cartonero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10