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Waste basket   /weɪst bˈæskət/   Listen
Waste basket

noun
1.
A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.  Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, wastepaper basket.






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"Waste basket" Quotes from Famous Books



... the dusky ceiling. But his thoughts had taken a pleasanter road. He had turned over the pages of his life history, scanned them with a gloomy and critical eye, and cast them with decisive finality into the waste basket. He was about to begin a new book, the book of the future. It was pleasant to contemplate what he and Doris Cleveland together would write on those blank pages. To hope much, to be no longer downcast, to be able to look forward ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair



Words linked to "Waste basket" :   waste-paper basket, circular file, container, wastebasket



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