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waste-water

waste-water is the alternative form of wastewater.

Meaning of wastewater

Noun

wastewater (countable and uncountable, plural wastewaters)

  1. Any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, as a result, now contains waste products.
    • Near-synonyms: sewage, sullage, graywater, blackwater, washwater, poop water (informal)

Questions about waste-water

What is waste-water the alternative form of?
Waste-water is the alternative form of wastewater.

Words near waste-water in the dictionary

  1. waste yutes
  2. waste-good
  3. waste-goods
  4. waste-ridden
  5. waste-time
  6. waste-water
  7. wasteable
  8. wastebasket
  9. wastebasket taxa
  10. wastebasket taxon
  11. wastebasketed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waste-water (page history and authors); wastewater (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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