wastepaper basket

wastepaper basket, bin

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) an open receptacle for paper and other dry litter Usual US and Canadian word wastebasket

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wastepaper basket - a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

circular file, waste basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket

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 [ˌweɪstˈpeɪpəˌbɑːskɪt] wastepaper bin [ˌweɪstˈpeɪpəbɪn] N → cesto m de los papeles, papelera f

wastepaper basket n → cestino per la cartaccia

wastepaper basket → سلة الأوراق المهملة koš papirkurv Papierkorb καλάθι αχρήστων papelera paperikori corbeille koš za otpatke cestino per la carta straccia くずかご 휴지통 afvalemmer papirkurv kosz na papiery cesto para papéis, lixeira корзина для канцелярского мусора papperskorg ตระกร้าใส่ขยะ çöp sepeti sọt đựng giấy rác 废纸篓

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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.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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.

Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context

Telegrams followed, which he threw into the wastepaper basket.

The Malefactor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context