recycle bin

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English

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Etymology

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First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

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  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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recycle bin (plural recycle bins)

  1. A container in which items to be recycled may be placed.
  2. (computing) In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

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