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Meaning of wastetime | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Wastewater wasteway wasteweir wasteyard wasteyute Wasting

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