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wast·er (w

1. One that wastes: a waster of time; a waster of money.

2. One that lays waste; a destroyer: a waster of enemy cities.

waster [ˈweɪstə]

1. a person or thing that wastes

2. a ne'er-do-well; wastrel

3. (Business / Commerce) an article spoiled in manufacture

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Noun	1.	waster - someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently wastrel prodigal, squanderer, profligate - a recklessly extravagant consumer
	2.	waster - a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" ruiner, uprooter, destroyer, undoer annihilator - a total destroyer bad person - a person who does harm to others iconoclast, image breaker - a destroyer of images used in religious worship diversionist, saboteur, wrecker - someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks vandal - someone who willfully destroys or defaces property

waster

noun layabout, loser, good-for-nothing, shirker, piker (Austral. & N.Z. slang), drone, loafer, skiver (Brit. slang), idler, ne'er-do-well, wastrel, malingerer, saddo (Brit. slang), bludger (Austral. & N.Z. informal) His brother is just a useless waster.

Translations

waster [ˈweɪstəʳ] N

1. (= good-for-nothing) → gandul mf

2. (= spendthrift) → derrochador(a) m/f

waster [ˈweɪstə^r] n → bon(ne) m/f à rien

waster

→ Verschwender(in) m(f); it’s a real time-/money-waster → das ist wirklich Zeit-/Geldverschwendung; she’s a terrible waster of electricity → sie verschwendet schrecklich viel Strom

(= good-for-nothing) → Taugenichts m

waster [ˈweɪstəʳ] n (good-for-nothing) → perdigiorno m/f; (spendthrift) → sprecone/a

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Annihilator
bad person
bum
deadbeat
destroyer
diversionist
good-for-nothing
iconoclast
idler
image breaker
Loafer
prodigal
profligate
Ruiner
saboteur
spendthrift
Squanderer
time-waster
Undoer

Students will be issued with wooden swords, called "wasters," to practice the correct handling of weapons and learn some of the tricks of defensive and offensive fighting at workshops taking place throughout the day.

Youngsters' chance to go knight school; TheDailyPreview: Knight's ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

The same rules forced the theater group to register several plastic and wooden swords and keep them locked up when they aren't being used.

Brickbats by Oliver, Charles / Reason

Once, I was fencing with some rudimentary wooden swords and the DT teacher yelled: "Good quality timber doesn't grow on trees, you know.

PICK OF THE DAY; Live athletics Sky Sports 2, 7pm by The Racing Post (London, England)

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