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Recycle bin

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

Etymology

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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