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wastebaskets

wastebaskets is the plural of wastebasket.

Meaning of wastebasket

Noun

wastebasket (plural wastebaskets)

  1. A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.
    • The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.2017, Russell Tuttle, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 122

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Questions about wastebaskets

What is wastebaskets the plural of?
Wastebaskets is the plural of wastebasket.

Words near wastebaskets in the dictionary

  1. wastebasket
  2. wastebasket taxa
  3. wastebasket taxon
  4. wastebasketed
  5. wastebasketing
  6. wastebaskets
  7. wastebin
  8. wastebins
  9. wasteboard
  10. wasteboards
  11. wastebook

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