Meaning

2 senses
  1. A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.

    a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

  2. (broadly, figuratively)Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom threw the letter into the wastebasket.

  2. Tom emptied the wastebasket into the incinerator.

  3. Give me the wrapper, so that I can throw it in the wastebasket already.

  4. The wastebasket is full.

  5. These letters might readily have been consigned to the depths of the wastebasket unopened, unread.

Origin

From waste + basket.

From waste + basket.

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Forms

plural: wastebaskets
Singularwastebasket
Pluralwastebaskets

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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