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wastepaper basket

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wastepaper basket
n.

wastepaper basket
Noun
a container for paper discarded after use
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Noun1.wastepaper basketwastepaper basket - a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish
container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
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wastepaper basket [ˈweɪstpeɪpə-] npapelera
wastepaper basket [ˈweɪstpeɪpə-] waste ncorbeille f à papier
wastepaper basket [ˈweɪstpeɪpə-] waste (Brit) nPapierkorb m
wastepaper basket [ˈweɪstpeɪpə-] ncestino per la carta straccia


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He did not recognize his room, looking up from the ground, at the bent legs of the table, at the wastepaper basket, and the tiger-skin rug.
How the other pen found its way into the bowl instead of the fireplace or wastepaper basket I can't imagine, but there the two were, lying side by side, both encrusted with ink and completely undistinguishable from each other.
Telegrams followed, which he threw into the wastepaper basket.
 
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