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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin..
The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.
For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]
I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
Use waste basket when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Waste basket means A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin..
Common synonyms include circular file, wastepaper basket, waste basket, waste-paper basket.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.
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