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# sweeper

«sweeper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to sweep, such as a street sweeper…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sweeper, sweepers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sweeper is a person whose job is to sweep, such as a street sweeper or road sweeper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#m1)

2) A sweeper is a machine or tool for sweeping, like a carpet sweeper or a street-cleaning truck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#m2)

3) (sport) In football, a sweeper is a defender who plays behind the other defenders to stop attacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#m3)

4) (sport) In curling, a sweeper brushes the ice in front of the stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday town life, children see road-sweeper trucks and street sweepers. In PE and football, the sweeper is a position. In history stories, chimney sweeps (also called sweepers) were sometimes small children, which was cruel and was later banned. Phrases: «street sweeper», «road sweeper», «carpet sweeper».

### examples

- The street sweeper cleaned up the leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#x1)
- A big road sweeper drove past with its brushes spinning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#x2)
- Nan uses a carpet sweeper on the rug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#x3)
- He played as the sweeper in our football team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#x4)
- The sweepers brushed the ice in front of the curling stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#x5)
- The sweeper came early to clean the market square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#x6)
- The news of Nag’s death was all over the garden, for the sweeper had thrown the body on the rubbish-heap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/#x7)

### note

Countable. From «sweep» + -er. A «chimney sweep» is usually just called «a sweep», not «a sweeper».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sweeper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweeper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.