Meaning of wastetime | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something done to pass the time.
   derogatory, rare
2. The period of time that a product spends in the environment as waste, after it has been disposed of.
   rare

Examples

“[…] theatres were closed, novels contemptuously dismissed as 'wastetimes', and poets declared to be wantons; […]”

“We need longer useful lifetimes and short biodegradable wastetimes for products, if we are to minimize material-resource inputs and maximize recovery and reuse of wastes.”

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