Usually means: Materials unused, discarded, or unwanted.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. waste: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. waste: Merriam-Webster
  3. waste: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. waste: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. waste: Collins English Dictionary
  6. waste: Vocabulary.com
  7. Waste, waste: Wordnik
  8. waste: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. waste: Wiktionary
  10. waste: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. waste: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. waste: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. waste: Dictionary.com
  14. waste (n.), waste (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. waste: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. W.A.S.T.E. (band), WASTE, Waste (Dove Cameron song), Waste (Foster the People song), Waste (disambiguation), Waste (law), Waste: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Waste: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. waste: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. waste: Rhymezone
  20. waste: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. waste: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. waste: FreeDictionary.org
  23. waste: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. waste: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. waste: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WASTE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. waste: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. waste: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. waste: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Waste: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. Waste (computer program), Waste (law), waste: Legal dictionary
  14. Waste (computer program), waste: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waste (computer program), waste: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. waste: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Waste (computer program), waste: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WASTE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. waste: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. waste, waste: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. waste: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Waste, waste: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. waste: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
noun:  Excrement or urine.
noun:  A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
noun:  A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
noun:  A large tract of uncultivated land.
noun:  (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
noun:  A vast expanse of water.
noun:  A disused mine or part of one.
noun:  The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
noun:  Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
noun:  Gradual loss or decay.
noun:  A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
noun:  (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
noun:  (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
noun:  (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
adjective:  (MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.
adjective:  (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
adjective:  Barren; desert; empty.
adjective:  Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
adjective:  Superfluous; needless.
adjective:  Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
adjective:  Unfortunate; disappointing.
verb:  (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
verb:  (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
verb:  (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
verb:  (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
verb:  (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
verb:  (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

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