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WASTEPAPER BASKET

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• WASTEPAPER BASKET (noun)
The noun WASTEPAPER BASKET has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: WASTEPAPER BASKET used as a noun is very rare.

• WASTEPAPER BASKET (noun)

Sense 1

wastepaper basket ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

circular file; waste basket; waste-paper basket; wastebasket; wastepaper basket

Hypernyms ("wastepaper basket" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

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(Czech proverb)

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