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wastepa·per bas·ket

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket, circular filenoun

    a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

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  1. wastepaper basketnoun

    A small open container for discarded paper etc; a wastebasket.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wastepaper basket in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wastepaper basket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of wastepaper basket in a Sentence

  1. Leon Botstein:

    Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

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