Meaning of Wastebasket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
2. Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.
   broadly, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.”

“For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]”

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