Wastebasket

Definition: Wastebasket

Wastebasket

Noun

1. A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.

Specialty Definitions: Wastebasket

Domain	Definitions
Public Administration	A basket for disposing of unwanted odds and ends esp. wastepaper. . . . called also --. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Wastebasket

Synonyms: circular file (n), waste basket (n), wastepaper basket (n), waste-paper basket (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: scrap basket (public administration).

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Crosswords: Wastebasket

Specialty definitions using "wastebasket": chad box. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Wastebasket

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Photo Album: Wastebasket

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Military and civilian personnel in a Navy Department office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, in 1919. Most of the women present are Navy Yeomen (F). Desk in center bears a name tag for "Miss Carlisle" and has a wickerwork wastebasket beside it. Calendar on the wall (upper right) is for March 1919.Credit: NAVY.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Wastebasket

"Wastebasket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wastebasket" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wastebasket

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
wastebasket	59
in not wastebasket	18
hooded rubbermaid wastebasket	3
rubbermaid wastebasket	3
bath wastebasket	3
bag grocery wastebasket	3
wood wastebasket	2
leather wastebasket	2
wastebasket liner	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wastebasket

Language		Translations for "wastebasket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		废字纸�". (various references)

Farsi		سبدکاغذباطله , سبدزباله وخاکروبه , اشغال دان (Ashcan). (various references)

German		Abfalleimer (dust bin, dustbin, dustbins, garbage can, garbage canUS, litter bin, trash can, trash canUS). (various references)

Greek		κάλαθοσ αχρήστων, καλάθι αχρήστων (wastepaper basket). (various references)

Hungarian		papírkosár (waste-basket, wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		紙屑� , 反古� , 屑入れ . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くずいれ, ほぐか�", かみくずか�". (various references)

Pig Latin		astebasketway

Russian		мусорный корзина (wastebin). (various references)

Spanish		basurero (catlap, dump, dustman, garbage collector, garbage man, refuse dump, rubbish tip, scavenger, tip). (various references)

Swedish		papperskorg (wastepaper basket, wastepaper bin). (various references)

Turkish		çöp sepeti (tidy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Wastebasket

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wastebasket": wastebaskets. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Wastebasket"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "wastebasket" (pronounced wā"stba'skut)
6	-b a' s k u t	breadbasket.
4	-s k u t	basket, biscuit, brisket, casket, gasket, musket.
3	-k u t	advocate, affricate, aftermarket, Becket, blanket, bucket, certificate, circuit, cricket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, hypermarket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wicket.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Wastebasket

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-k-s-s-t-t-w"
	-4 letters: abwatts, baskets, betakes, estates, tsatske, weakest.
	-5 letters: abases, abates, abwatt, awakes, baases, basest, basket, basset, bastes, beasts, besets, betake, bettas, estate, seesaw, sestet, skates, skeets, stakes, states, steaks, steeks, sweats, sweets, tasset, tastes, tawses, teases, testae, testes, tsetse, tweaks, tweets, wastes.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-k-s-s-t-t-w"
	+1 letter: wastebaskets.
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