wastebasket
a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
Origin of wastebasket
1- Also called wastepaper basket.
Words Nearby wastebasket
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How to use wastebasket in a sentence
They also offer office accessories such as crocodile desk sets, wastebaskets and storage boxes.
Empty the pan into the fire, which is safer than dumping stray embers into a wastebasket or vacuuming them up, where they could set a bag of collected dust on fire.
Here are 9 home maintenance tasks for your November to-do list | Jeanne Huber | October 29, 2021 | Washington PostThe small, easily stored, no-basket design fits most wastebaskets.
Best paper shredder to cut down sensitive papers | Stacey L. Nash | October 13, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhile the wastebasket fills quickly, it is easy to empty and pulls completely out of the shredder.
Best paper shredder to cut down sensitive papers | Stacey L. Nash | October 13, 2021 | Popular-ScienceA safety mechanism turns off the machine if the head is removed from the wastebasket, keeping hands and fingers safe.
Best paper shredder to cut down sensitive papers | Stacey L. Nash | October 13, 2021 | Popular-Science
It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.
Beard nodded, and without another word, Kenney flung the work into the wastebasket.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon | Robert Sam Anson | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat did you do—go through his wastebasket and find his pay stub?
Well, ultimately, the screenplay is the only part of a movie that you can fit into a wastebasket.
I even remember throwing the pieces into the round wooden wastebasket in our living room.
I finished cleaning out my desk and took a wastebasket full of papers to the back shop.
Nine Men in Time | Noel Miller LoomisBassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonAnything like that I always take and I tear up and put in the wastebasket.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyHall went through the wastebasket, the clothes hanging in the closet, every drawer in the bureau.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseShe tossed a slip into the wastebasket beside her and glanced at the next slip.
Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
British Dictionary definitions for wastebasket
/ (ˈweɪstˌbɑːskɪt) /
an open receptacle for paper and other dry litter: Also called (esp in Britain): wastepaper basket
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