Plural of waste
regular plural
The plural of waste is wastes.
Forms of waste
| Singular | waste /ˈweɪ̯st/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | wastes /weɪsts/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Wastes in a sentence
- The pampas of Argentina and the chilly wastes of Patagonia, like the prairies and deserts of North America, were largely shunned by Spanish settlers until the 1870s.1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 33
- Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
- Plus, it wastes waaay less cabinet space than a traditional colander.2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry dang
- Overcommunication wastes both the sender's and receiver's time by transmitting more information than necessary.2022, William Singleton, Musings on Leadership: It's for Everyone and Everywhere in Life, PQA United, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry overcommunication
- However, there is dearth of literature which discusses about the biovalorization of agro-industrial wastes into specialty biochemicals.2013, Satinder Kaur Brar, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals…. From the entry biovalorization
Meaning of waste
- 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.
Questions about the plural of waste
- What is the plural of waste?
- The plural of waste is wastes.
- Is waste countable?
- Waste is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: waste (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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