Wastebasket
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wastebasket is a noun meaning A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
Meaning
A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
More Meanings
- (figurative, by extension) Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.
- (transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.
Example Sentences
The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.
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.
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” […]
Word Forms
- wastebaskets
- wastebasketing
- wastebasketed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dustbin, hamper, dumpster, basket, bin, pail.
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