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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. wastepaper basket

    A wastepaper basket is a container, usually found in offices, bedrooms, bathrooms, or other living spaces, used for temporary storage of unneeded items, typically paper and other lightweight waste. It is designed for convenient disposal of items that are no longer needed or have been used and need to be thrown away.

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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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