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e-waste

/ˈiːweɪst/

e-waste noun: discarded electrical and electronic equipment.

Noun

e-waste (uncountable)

  1. Discarded electrical and electronic equipment.
    • Following up news articles and e-mails from mainland China, BAN was directed to an e-waste processing area known as Guiyu on the Longdong River near the city of Shantou in the northeast [of] Guangdong Province, four hours by car from Hong Kong. In the course of three intensive days in and around...2002, Jim Puckett, 5:35 from the start, in Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia, spoken by Mary Ryan, Basel Action Network, →OCLC
    • In June of last year, the Thai Ministry of Industry announced with great fanfare the ban on foreign e-waste. The police made a series of high-profile raids on at least 10 factories, including New Sky Metal. […] Since the e-waste ban, 28 new recycling factories, most dealing with electronic refuse...2019 December 8, Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat, “The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2021
  2. (derogatory) Electrical and electronic equipment of poor quality.

e-waste meaning in Tamil

e-waste in Tamil

மின்கழிவு, மின்சாதனக் கழிவு

Examples of e-waste in a sentence

  • In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.2002, Jim Puckett, 5:35 from the start, in Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia, spoken by Mary Ryan, Basel Action Network, →OCLC:
  • In June of last year, the Thai Ministry of Industry announced with great fanfare the ban on foreign e-waste.2019 December 8, Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat, “The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs”, in The New York Times...

Origin of e-waste

From e- (electric) + or e- (digital) + waste.

Words that rhyme with e-waste

23 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about e-waste

What does e-waste mean?
E-waste means discarded electrical and electronic equipment.
What is e-waste in Tamil?
E-waste in Tamil is மின்கழிவு, மின்சாதனக் கழிவு. See E-waste meaning in Tamil.
How do you use e-waste in a sentence?
In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.
What part of speech is e-waste?
E-waste is a noun.
How do you pronounce e-waste?
E-waste is pronounced /ˈiːweɪst/.

Words near e-waste in the dictionary

  1. e-voucher
  2. e-vouchers
  3. e-wallet
  4. e-wallets
  5. e-warfare
  6. e-waste
  7. e-whiteboard
  8. e-whiteboards
  9. e-word
  10. e-words
  11. e-worksheet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: e-waste (page history and authors); e-waste (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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