waste-paper basket

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• waste-paper basket — is the BrE term; in AmE it is wastebasket …   Modern English usage

• waste-paper basket — noun a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish • Syn: ↑wastepaper basket, ↑wastebasket, ↑waste basket, ↑circular file • Hypernyms: ↑container …   Useful english dictionary

• waste-paper basket — noun chiefly Brit. a receptacle for small quantities of rubbish …   English new terms dictionary

• waste paper — noun Waste paper is used before these nouns: ↑basket, ↑bin …   Collocations dictionary

• waste basket — noun a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish • Syn: ↑wastepaper basket, ↑waste paper basket, ↑wastebasket, ↑circular file • Hypernyms: ↑container * * * waste basket (N American …   Useful english dictionary

• Waste container — For the software component, see Recycle bin (computing). A collection of movable waste containers in Australia A waste container is a container for temporarily storing waste, and is usually made out of metal or plastic. Common terms are dustbin,… …   Wikipedia

• waste — v., adj., & n. v. 1 tr. use to no purpose or for inadequate result or extravagantly (waste time). 2 tr. fail to use (esp. an opportunity). 3 tr. (often foll. by on) give (advice etc.), utter (words etc.), without effect. 4 tr. & intr. wear… …   Useful english dictionary

• basket — noun 1 container ADJECTIVE ▪ bamboo, plastic, straw, wicker, wire, woven, etc. ▪ laundry, sewing …   Collocations dictionary

• waste — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 missing an opportunity to do/use sth ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, total, utter ▪ The whole thing has been a complete waste of time. ▪ big, colossal …   Collocations dictionary

• waste — {{11}}waste (n.) c.1200, desolate regions, from O.Fr. wast, from L. vastum, neut. of vastus waste (see WASTE (Cf. waste) (v.)); replacing O.E. westen, woesten a desert, wilderness, from the Latin word. Meaning useless expenditure is recorded from …   Etymology dictionary

• waste basket — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English