WASTE-PAPER BASKET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

Synonyms:

circular file; waste-paper basket; waste basket; wastebasket; wastepaper basket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("waste-paper basket" is a kind of...):

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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