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waste
  1. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
  2. Excrement or urine.
  3. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
  4. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
  5. A large tract of uncultivated land.
  6. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
  7. A vast expanse of water.
  8. A disused mine or part of one.
  9. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
  10. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
  11. Gradual loss or decay.
  12. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
  13. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
  14. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
  15. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
  16. Synonyms:
      17. refuse, rubbish, debris, litter, scrap, dross, garbage, trash, junk, dregs, leavings, offal, offscourings, effluvium, sweepings, chaff, deadwood, detritus, dreck, drek, dust, effluvia, leftovers, offscouring, raffle, remains, riffraff, scraps, spilth, truck, effluent, sewage, excess, hogwash, rubble, ruins, rummage, slop, swill, muck, residue, draff, grot, mullock, orts, discarded matter, gash, sediment, raff, lumber … more
  17. Examples:
      18. “The two warehouses will be used to store low-level radioactive waste generated by the two plants.”
      “Inefficient operation of the machinery has resulted in a significant waste of electricity.”
      “The Vikings settled in Greenland during the medieval warm period when it was indeed a green land rather than an icy waste.”
wastage
  1. (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
  2. (uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
  3. (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
  4. (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
  5. (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. waste, loss, depletion, dissipation, squandering, wastefulness, expenditure, consumption, spending, draining, exhaustion, use, exploitation, using up, use of, utilization, usage, utilisation, wasting, drain, expending, consuming, burning, squander, dissipating, misspending, burning up, frittering, extravagance, improvidence, misuse, blowing, losing, wild spending, frittering away, throwing away, lavishing, prodigality, misapplication, unthriftiness, lavishness, misemployment, fritter, abuse, disuse, overdoing, destruction, ruin, devastation, annihilation … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “The use of harvesters and plastic crates has become essential to minimise wastage during harvesting and transportation.”
      “Participants were also questioned regarding their institutional practices and policies related to blood wastage.”
      “To practical men of business like them he is the epitome of the wastage of human energy, he is a good-for-nothing.”
wasting
  1. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
  2. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. spoilage, decomposition, rot, decay, putrefaction, putrescence, breakdown, corruption, rotting, festering, disintegration, perishing, deterioration, putridity, corrosion, blight, withering, mortification, degeneration, decline, gangrene, atrophy, crumbling, rottenness, decadence, rust, fading, failing, senescence, dissolution, dilapidation, spoilation, degeneracy, caries, putridness, adulteration, consumption, decrease, decrepitude, depreciation, disrepair, downfall, dying, extinction, impairment, ruin, ruination, damage, wasting away, shrivelling … more
wasteman
  1. (mining, historical) A person employed to examine the state of the mine workings, to check that they are properly ventilated, and sometimes to build pillars to support the roof in the waste.
wastefulness
  1. imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
  2. Synonyms:
      3. extravagance, lavishness, prodigality, squandering, profusion, waste, dissipation, improvidence, excess, expenditure, overspending, squander, immoderation, extravagancy, overindulgence, exorbitance, profligacy, recklessness, overdoing, unthrift, unreasonableness, unrestraint, folly, profuseness, outrageousness, preposterousness, wildness, thriftlessness, unthriftiness, misspending, loss, waste of money, financial irresponsibility, frittering away, intemperance, decadence, bounteousness, wantonness, abandon, exaggeration, profligateness, absurdity, money down the drain, money down the toilet, cost-ineffective, lack of thrift, misapplication, spendthrift behaviour, free-spending ways, depletion … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “These are churned out with a freedom, a frequency, at a cost, and with a wastefulness that would be considered shocking in a private company.”
      “This single line from the 1967 film The Graduate came to signify a generation's contempt for insincerity, conformity, and wastefulness.”
      “And the government bureaucracy is riddled with corruption, thieving, lying and wastefulness.”
wasteway
  1. A chute or other route for the disposal of waste material.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The purpose of this wasteway is to provide for emergency waste in the canal in case of unscheduled shutdown of the relift pumping plant.”
      “Paddling through the Winchester Wasteway is not for the fist-time canoer, he said.”
wasteoid
  1. (slang) Someone who is habitually wasted (drunk or stoned)
wastrel
  1. (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spendthrift, squanderer, profligate, prodigal, waster, fritterer, spender, high roller, big spender, dissipater, sport, customer, client, overspender, dissipator, improvident, compulsive shopper, deep pockets, splurger, idler, loafer, layabout, shirker, sluggard, skiver, lounger, slacker, drone, slugabed, lazybones, slug, laggard, malingerer, piker, slob, bludger, loser, saddo, do-nothing, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, bum, deadbeat, slouch, couch potato, lotus-eater, goof-off, no-good, vagrant … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “His prospective employer, Tony, is an upper-class wastrel just come into his inheritance.”
      “Her husband is a workshy, good-for-nothing wastrel.”
      “But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.”
wastry
  1. (Scotland, Northern England) Extravagance, wastefulness.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wastery
wastness
  1. (obsolete) A waste or wilderness.
wastorel
  1. Obsolete form of wastrel.
wastery
  1. Alternative form of wastry
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wastry
wastelessness
  1. Absence of waste.
wastefulnesses
  1. plural of wastefulness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. extravagances, lavishnesses, prodigalities, squanderings, profusions, wastes, dissipations, improvidences, excesses, expenditures, overspendings, immoderations, extravagancies, overindulgences, exorbitances, profligacies, recklessnesses, unthrifts, unreasonablenesses, unrestraints, follies, profusenesses, outrageousnesses, preposterousness, wildnesses, thriftlessness, unthriftiness, losses, intemperances, decadences, bounteousnesses, wantonnesses, abandons, exaggerations, absurdities, profligateness, depletions, misapplications, misemployments, exhaustions, fritters, spendings, misuses, wastages, abuses, disuse, superfluousnesses, superfluities, surfeits, superabundances … more
wastemen
  1. plural of wasteman
wasteoids
  1. plural of wasteoid
wastorels
  1. plural of wastorel
wasteways
  1. plural of wasteway
wastnesses
  1. plural of wastness
wastings
  1. plural of wasting
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spoilage, decompositions, rots, decay, putrefaction, putrescence, breakdowns, corruption, rottings, festerings, disintegration, deterioration, putridity, corrosion, blight, witherings, mortification, degeneration, decline, gangrene, atrophies, crumblings, rottenness, decadence, rust, fadings, failings, senescence, dissolution, dilapidations, degeneracies, caries, putridness, adulterations, consumption, decrease, decrepitude, depreciation, disrepair, downfalls, dying, extinction, impairment, ruin, ruinations, damage, corrodings, debasement, canker, shabbiness … more
wastrels
  1. plural of wastrel
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spendthrifts, squanderers, profligates, prodigals, wasters, fritterers, spenders, high rollers, big spenders, dissipaters, sport, dissipators, clients, customers, overspenders, splurgers, idlers, loafers, layabouts, shirkers, sluggards, skivers, loungers, slackers, drones, slugabeds, lazybones, slugs, laggards, malingerers, pikers, slobs, bludgers, losers, saddos, do-nothings, good-for-nothings, ne'er-do-wells, bums, deadbeats, couch potatoes, no-goods, slouches, goof-offs, lotus-eaters, derelicts, vagrants, sloth, beachcombers … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels.”
      “These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels, neurotic misfits or criminals.”
      “Kushner's New York is full of performers, boasters, wastrels, aesthetic activists.”
wastages
  1. plural of wastage
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wastes, losses, depletions, dissipations, squanderings, wastefulnesses, expenditures, consumption, spendings, exhaustions, uses, exploitations, utilizations, usages, utilisations, drains, wastings, consumings, burnings, extravagances, improvidences, misuses, blowings, losings, prodigalities, misapplications, unthriftiness, lavishnesses, misemployments, fritters, abuses, disuse, destructions, ruins, devastations, annihilations, ruinations, obliterations, demolitions, exterminations, decimations, desolations, demolishments, extinctions, wreckages, havocs, mincemeats, eliminations, eradications … more
wastes
  1. plural of waste
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wild, wilderness, nature, backwoods, barrens, bush, forest, jungle, outback, wasteland, open, outdoors, out-of-doors, open air, wilds, sticks, boondocks, boonies, hinterland, badlands, bundu, badland, champaign, back country, rough country, inhospitable region, uncultivated region, no-man's land, primeval forest, open-air, backcountry, hinterlands, wastelands, desolate areas, remote territories, rugged lands, unpopulated zones, untamed regions … more
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