wastepaper
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- noun
- /ˈweɪstˌpeɪpər/
:
papel usado
- I was to dust the big desk, empty the wastepaper basket—this required him to slide the chair away.
- a wastepaper basket
Examples
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A week later, I found the carbon copy of our math test in one of the school's wastepaper bins.
Fiction book (1992) -
Lee lifts his wastepaper basket, revealing strips of paper.
Fiction book (1999) -
Billy took several crumbled sheets of yellow paper out of his pocket and threw them in the wastepaper basket.
Fiction book (1997) -
By this time, he was wadding notepaper from his desk drawer into balls and shooting at the wastepaper basket he'd placed on the other side of the room.
Fiction book (1996) -
Just as Motoda began thinking, "Ah, that's nice," Yoshiko, rummaging through the wastepaper basket by Motoda's writing table, examined every scrap of paper.
Fiction book (1992) -
After finishing my report, I tossed the used pages into the wastepaper basket.
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She always keeps the wastepaper basket near her desk for discarded notes.
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Recycling centers often collect wastepaper to be processed into new products.
Synonyms
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Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
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Unwanted food and other waste from a home or kitchen that you throw away
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Things people throw away because they are not wanted
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Things like old or broken items that are thrown away
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Paper that people throw away after use
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wastepaper is made from waste ('something to throw away') and paper, so it is literally paper meant to be discarded. That's why wastepaper refers to paper that is no longer needed and is thrown away or recycled.