WASTE PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waste paper mean? 

• WASTE PAPER (noun)
  The noun WASTE PAPER has 1 sense:

1. paper discarded after use

  Familiarity information: WASTE PAPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASTE PAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paper discarded after use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

 Context examples 

Out of date and waste paper.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had thought of a great office with shining tables and rows of clerks, such as I was used to, and I daresay I stared rather straight at the two deal chairs and one little table, which, with a ledger and a waste paper basket, made up the whole furniture.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)